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SELMA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Agricultural enactment is physically demanding and hard connected the body, truthful it's important that the workers person their yearly checkups and support their bodies healthy. The Clinica Sierra Vista honored cultivation workers successful Selma connected Tuesday.
"Typically, the enactment done successful the ag satellite is during the summer, during precise hard vigor days, truthful it is important for them to prioritize their health, prioritizing hydration," said Christian Pinedo, Director of Communications for the Clinica Sierra Vista.
Workers were provided with a escaped lunch, a philharmonic performance, and wellness attraction information.
"We bring that attraction to their community, we bring providers, we bring entree to wellness care, medical, dental, behavioral health, sometimes adjacent specialty," Pinedo said.
Field representatives with Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula's bureau were connected tract to pass workers however they tin assistance link them with authorities agencies astir Medicare, nutrient stamps, and unemployment.
"Sometimes erstwhile they record connected their own, it takes months for them to get their cases approved, particularly with COVID, and the cases were delayed months and months, with our help, we are capable to determination the cases a small spot faster and each our services are wholly free," said Maricela Ortiz, Senior Field Representative for Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula's Office.
Ortiz said this gives them vulnerability to assistance much people. She said aft they be events similar this, they bash get calls from respective people. It ranges anyplace from 10 to 50.
Another assets is the Clinica Sierra Vista mobile session which travels passim the labour assemblage to supply speedy and casual healthcare services.
"They often spell untreated, successful my idiosyncratic experience, it's scary to spell to the doc and past to permission work, it's besides scary to miss retired connected work, truthful it's bully that it conscionable comes close to you and you tin conscionable spell get work and spell close backmost to work," said Lacey Combs, Medical Assistant of the mobile unit.
The aesculapian assistants tin adjacent prescribe medicine that volition beryllium delivered consecutive to the worker.
