VANCOUVER and TORONTO – This week, Telus announced the expansion of its innovative mobile Health for Good clinic program with its community health partner, Kílala Lelum Health Centre in Vancouver, and the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre (CHC) and University Health Network’s (UHN) Social Medicine Program in Toronto.
The mobile clinics are specially-equipped vans whose staffers in Vancouver will provide trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive primary medical treatments, Indigenous Elder-led cultural care, mental health services, and addiction support directly to the underserved citizens of Vancouver.
In Toronto, the clinics “provide essential primary health and harm reduction services directly to underserved persons in neighbourhoods in the mid-west region of Toronto. In addition, the clinic will enable mobile Covid-19 testing and vaccination efforts at homeless sheltering sites, congregate housing for marginalized populations and in areas with high positivity rates,” reads the press release.
“At Telus, we believe that everyone should have access to healthcare when and where they need it, regardless of their socio-economic status,” said CEO Darren Entwistle in a press release.
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