The group will continue to provide these services even with the President's New Universal Health Care Plan taking effect.
Ken Zeno is ready for his check up. "I just had a cholesterol check done. I'm also here to get dental work done, and an EKG," Ken Zeno of Fresno said. Ken doesn't have health insurance. "I'm the one among millions that don't have it so. But I'm here to take advantage of it."
Like Ken, hundreds of uninsured people came out to a free health care clinic in Central Fresno Sunday. Fourteen service stations ranging from blood work to dental needs were offered all in one place.
"It's good and bad in certain ways. There's a lot of people who fall through the cracks and this program is designed for those kind of people. A lot of people have health care, a lot of people don't," Clinical Lab Scientist Rabia Saeed said.
Rabia Aaeed is a clinical lab scientist at Saint Agnes Hospital in Fresno and she donated her time to help others. Saeed says it's the least health care professionals can do to give back.
"Especially with this economy, they're lucky not to have lost their jobs, and so their sentiment is that you know if one can do anything to help for people that don't have then it's a good thing," Saeed said.
President Barack Obama's Universal Health Care Plan offers new hope to Americans that someday this event may no longer be needed in the valley.
"Hopefully it'll be good for all of us and affordable so, they say it is but time will tell," Zeno said.
But one doctor we talked to isn't as optimistic.
"The plan is in process and we don't know the full extent of the plan, but I think this need is still going to be there no matter how good the coverage is," Mohammad Ashraf, M.D. said.
A California health interview survey shows Fresno County having more than 125,000 people under the age of 65 that don't have health insurance. The Muslim Soceity of Central California holds three of these free events a year.
The next one will take place in September.
