Free Medical and Dental Clinics to Provide Services for Low-Income

Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps

It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with a bullhorn, straining to hear the instructions and worried they might be left out.

For the past 10 years, during late weekends in July, the fairgrounds in Wise have been transformed into a mobile and makeshift field hospital providing free care for those in need. Sanitized horse stalls become draped examination rooms. A poultry barn is fixed with optometry equipment. And a vast, open-air pavilion is crammed with dozens of portable dental chairs and lamps.

Medical, dental and vision help is often elusive for the 2,700 people seeking treatment during the three-day RAM event.

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Free health and dental clinics in Valley for next two weeks

McALLEN — Free health and dental care will be available to all residents of the Rio Grande Valley at different locations for the next two weeks.

Operation Lone Star, which provided health and dental care to more than 11,000 South Texas residents in two weeks last year, is expanding this summer to provide free health clinics in even more locations.

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