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Health
Care for All – The struggle continues!
Friday, June 22, at 10:30 AM
Advocate Christ Medical
Center, 4440 W. 95 St. Chicago
Members
of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission in Little Village are announcing a victory after
a 21-day hunger strike: Loyola Medical Center,
Rush Hospital
and UIC Medical Center
have agreed to offer life-saving treatment to two brothers, Martin
Hernandez and Jorge Mariscal, who were previously denied
care based on immigration status.
The hunger strikers celebrate
their victory by continuing the fight on behalf of all who do not have access
to health care based on immigration status or inability to pay. Join them on Friday, June 22 at 10:30 AM for
a candlelight vigil in front of Advocate
Christ Medical
Center at 4440 W. 95 St.
at 10:30am to denounce the hospital’s negligence toward patients who lack
financial resources or legal documents
Hospitals
routinely deny patient care based on immigration status and inability to pay:
in a profit-driven medical system, only certain lives are deemed to be worth
saving. The
City of Chicago
recently closed six mental health clinics and patients have been fighting for
months to restore those essential services. We believe that health care,
including mental health services, are a human right. Access to such services
should not be denied due to immigration status or ability to pay. Struggles
such as this hunger strike and the Mental Health Movement are linked, and are
both pointing out the lack of dedication to providing the basic right of health
and healing for all human beings.
In solidarity
Moratorium on Deportations Campaign
No Name collective
http://moratoriumondeportations.org/
For more information please contact
Fr. Jose Landaverde (773) 512-8015, Hilda Burgos (312) 385-9220
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