Metro

Code blue for clinics

Lutheran Family Health Centers in Brooklyn is scrambling to serve 95,000 patients in neighborhoods already suffering from a shortage of doctors.

ObamaCare would likely swamp its network of eight primary-care clinics with thousands more patients.

Handling such a surge would be impractical without funds to hire additional doctors and other staffers — including multilingual speakers in communities with heavy Hispanic, Asian and Arabic populations, officials there said.

“We are very backed up,” said Dr. Uma Jayakrishnan, a pediatrician working at Lutheran’s Sunset Park Family Health clinic, located in the same building as Lutheran Hospital.

Jayakrishnan, who sees on average of 20 to 25 patients a day, said the waiting list for regular check-ups is 2½ months.