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After two months of fruitless negotiations for space with a neighborhood church, the Loop-West End Free Clinic project has succeeded in renting a storefront at 6010 Kingsbury as a site for the free clinic in our neighborhood.
Free Clinics, such as this, are blossoming all over the country as, in response to the failure of the health care system. neighborhood groups gather the resources to take care of the unmet health needs in their own communities. The main thrust of the Free Clinic is that health care should be free of charge at the point of delivery: that is, that people’s medical care shouldn’t be dependent upon whether they’ve got money in their pocket: that health care should be a right, and not a commodity to be sold. Other ways to meet the cost will be sought.
With this in mind, it is important that residents participate in the planning as well as the operation of the clinic. After all, we don’t have to be medical experts to know how we would like people to treat us. Some neighbors who are now involved with the project felt reluctant to volunteer at first because they felt like they had “nothing to offer.” Now they know better, because everybody has something he or she can do well. At the Free Clinic we can all learn from each other.
Since many people would like to learn more about the Free Clinic, we’ve been having block meetings in the Loop and Skinker-DeBaliviere area. To find out about having a meeting on your block call: Martha Raggs, 863-7320 (if you live in Skinker-Rosedale): Gurtha Wimbley, 863-1018 (Washington Heights): David Damick. 863-7106 (Loop). For general information call Peter Muckerman. 863-6790.
The Loop-West End Free Clinic can provide us with an interesting and exciting challenge. Best of all, it belongs to all of us. Right now our clinic needs a lot of fixing up so it can open. We need help with cleaning. carpentry, wiring, plumbing. painting, sign painting, laying floor tile. etc. (The floors are awful in spots.) Does anyone know how we can get floor tile cheap or free? Got any flourescent fixtures? Drywall? Two by fours? Time?
Join in. Your neighbors need you. Peter Muckerman Loop-West End Free Clinic 863-6790
Originally published in The Paper, May 1972.
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Original source: SD_Times1972_05.pdf, printed page 3.
