Black Doctors Consortium hosts health equity walk and health fair in North Philly

Cidney Alexander showed up on the sweltering hot Saturday, to walk the just about two-mile wander-a-thon route. She’s a teacher in Philly, but lives in New Jersey — and traveled all that way to assistance the Consortium. She credits the Consortium with giving her medical care for the duration of the pandemic when no 1 else would.

“This was the only put that I could get vaccinated,” she claimed. “I arrived above from Pennsauken, New Jersey, to get vaccinated. That’s how important it was.”

Ijjae Hill also traveled to the stroll-a-thon, from Chester, exactly where she’s pursuing her doctorate in bodily treatment at Widener College. She’s witnessed health disparities among the people of Chester and Philadelphia.

“But definitely, when they have medical professionals and healthcare workers that are fully commited to their health and that they have the assets that they will need to triumph, then they have a minimal bit much more of an equitable health expertise,” she explained.

Edward Jelani DeBrady, a most cancers researcher who lives in Germantown, carried a sign at Saturday’s Wander-a-Thon looking at, “I want to live.”

He reported he’s been influenced by the function of Dr. Stanford, who was not too long ago appointed to guide the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Companies Location 3 business office. DeBrady ideas to 1 day do the job as a physician, also.

“I believe that that health is prosperity, and we have to seriously acquire the reins on our health in this region, in this metropolis,” DeBrady said. “We have to help save our personal communities.”

Organizers of the stroll-a-thon plan to make it a yearly tradition.