What, no fluffy kittens in ten months?! Well, we adopted a stray calico kitten, but I want to point out Muslim medical students who started a clinic in South Central Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County is three times the size of the state of Rhode Island and a third the size of the Netherlands. It is home not only to billionaires in Bel-Air and Beverly Hills, but also to some 900,000 people in the South Central region who endure poverty and widespread homelessness. South Central has the highest rates in the country of premature births, foster children, child abuse and people without health insurance. The doctor-patient ratio in South Central is one physician for 29,000 people, while in Beverly Hills, it’s five doctors to one person. The customary wait to be seen in the Los Angeles County health system, for patients with serious diseases, is six to nine months.
My favorite part was at the end:
Many express their gratitude verbally, in Spanish or English; others, however, turn to the universal “thank you” of food: “They often bring us hot tamales, or a big pot of soup, and even fish caught off the Santa Monica pier.”
Full article linked above.
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