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Follow our journey to equalize the healthcare system and connect every uninsured immigrant with the quality healthcare they deserve. Below, you’ll find our media mentions and stories about our fearless community members.
MEDIUM
One undocumented immigrant’s plight to receiving eye surgery
For the past two years Ana (pseudonym), who currently resides in New Jersey, has been living with a benign growth in her right eye, which risks becoming malignant. Working day-jobs at a factory and cooking “tamales” or hot meals to sell in her community, she struggles to make ends meet for her son and husband, who recently suffered a heart attack.
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
Care for undocumented immigrants
The severe pain and lengthy hospital stay could have been avoided, said Angela, an undocumented immigrant from Colombia, if only the application she had submitted to receive Charity Care in New Jersey two months earlier had been approved, or if just one of the nearly 70 follow-up calls she made had been returned.