“We are trying to help people diagnosis what is really going on with their health and saying, ’If you have these health conditions, are you also aware of how climate change is exacerbating the condition?'”
Opeyemi Aransiola, ECO-Action Program Manager for R.E.A.C.H. – ATL
“Sometimes the people in the communities we are targeting do not have access to health services and health professionals to tell them what is going on in their body,” she said.
While the community members are receiving the free health screenings, they will also get information about how to build resilience to climate change.
For example, she says, if a community member has asthma, they will be provided with information about how to deal with extreme heat, manage air quality and what type of emergency kit they need to have on hand in case of an emergency.
For more information about the schedule for the mobile clinic, email o.aransiola@eco-act.org or call (404) 584-6499.
Residents in various communities located in Downtown Atlanta will have the opportunity to receive free health screenings beginning this month thanks to a collaboration between the Healing Community Center, R.E.A.C.H. – ATL (Resilience, Equity and Adaptation for Climate and Health) and ECO-Action.
Asthma, hypertension, diabetes, head/neck and mammogram screenings will all be included inside the HEALing Mobile Clinic, a mobile unit which made its first appearance as part of this collaboration at ECO-Action’s Earth Day Festival on April 20 in Phoenix III Park in Summer Hill.
The mobile unit also visited the Pittsburgh Community on June 22 at Pittsburgh Yards, located at 352 University Avenue SW.
Other communities that will receive services from the program in upcoming months include: Adair Park, Vine City, West End, AUC, Ashview Heights, English Avenue, Mechanicsville and Oakland City.
Opeyemi Aransiola, ECO-Action Program Manager for R.E.A.C.H. – ATL says having the mobile unit visit these communities is part of an ongoing effort to help people become aware of their health conditions and how to manage them as well share information about climate change and how it may be impacting them.
“We are trying to help people diagnosis what is really going on with their health and saying, ’If you have these health conditions, are you also aware of how climate change is exacerbating the condition?,’ “ she said.
Aransiola says she and her colleagues may not be able to solve all the problems of climate change, but as individuals we can build resilience
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