RUSKIN, Fla., (WFLA) – On Saturday, a sequence of free back-to-school well being clinics have been held in Hillsborough County.
The occasions are an opportunity for teenagers at school to get the medical care they want.
The clinics are held by Mission Hyperlink and are for college kids Ok-12.
Through the clinics, college students can get all of the photographs, vaccines, and college physicals they want earlier than summer season ends.
Organizers mentioned with issues just like the measles outbreak, youngsters have to be updated.
All of those occasions are for uninsured households.
“Properly, this yr, it is significantly essential as a result of quite a lot of households have misplaced their medical insurance coverage, there’s some points with Medicaid. So, we’re seeing households that will usually go to a physician, however they’re not coated,” mentioned Lisa Younger, CEO for Mission Hyperlink.
Dad and mom do must register their youngsters for a time slot earlier than coming to the clinics. Mission Hyperlink shall be holding 7 of those well being clinics through the summer season, to register, click on here.
