Health Clinics Perform Valuable Public Service
* I hope mine is one of many letters you receive registering dismay at the possible closure of neighborhood health clinics.
I work a few blocks from the Canoga Park Clinic on Remmet Avenue and have occasion to use the facilities. I observed a number of families with one or more children there receiving medical services, especially immunizations.
I agree with many of the points addressed in your story “Shutdown of Clinics May Pose Risk to Public Health” (June 25) about the good work neighborhood clinics do in the battle against potentially epidemic diseases (TB, measles). The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors would be doing a great disservice to the community if it closed them.
I am not a budgetary expert, but I am a concerned member of the community and I wish to publicly lodge my concern over even the consideration of closing “two-thirds of public health centers.”
How do the supervisors think that the people who need to use neighborhood clinics would be able to get to the ones left open in Glendale, North Hollywood, Lancaster or Valencia?
I hope that when the Health Crisis Task Force reports to the Board of Supervisors, a different solution can be arrived at.
LOREN LEVINE
Canoga Park
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