UCHealth partnered with InnerCity Health for a free medical day, an ever-crucial need after patients delayed screenings during the pandemic.
“People have been stuck in their cocoons and people don’t know how to access quality healthcare. It helps serve low income, uninsured, underinsured – all kinds of people,” said Abetola Obiwale, a clinical pharmacist and supervisor for the event. “This, by all means, is my purpose. To give back to the community. I’ve been doing this for years.”
He had waited years to get a prostate specific antigen test. “I was in desperate need. The last PCP that I had was in 2018. In 2020, I had another opportunity for a test, but then COVID happened. 2021 came, and it was a scramble, but thank God I got out today.”
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