Staten Island will be the scene of a medical relief mission – something most New Yorkers are must accustomed to seeing in some far off impoverished nation.
AmeriCares said it is deploying a mobile medical clinic on Thursday to the Beacon Christian Community Health Center in on Forest Avenue on the Granitville section. The forty-foot bus has private exam rooms, medicines and a contingent of doctors and nurdes.
“This is just the beginning of what is sure to be a large-scale response with dozens of aid deliveries,” said Garrett Ingoglia, AmeriCares vice president of emergency response. “Sandy is the worst storm the East Coast has experienced in a generation.”
It is also sending 5,000 Johnson & Johnson hygiene kits stocked with soap, shampoo, toothpaste and other personal care items for people rendered homeless in Queens, Staten Island and New Jersey.