On 9th October, Councilman Basheer Jones invited the local community for a free health & wellness check-up at the 3rd annual Imani Women’s Day of Health in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. Spectrum News 1 covered the event.
Surely in the middle of the pandemic, hosting any event is challenging let alone a community health and wellness event. Councilman Basheer Jones said, rightly so, that the pandemic has made it even more crucial to host such events.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have been hesitant to seek medical care because of precautions. At the 3rd annual Imani Women’s Day of Health, resources were brought to residents of the Hough neighborhood in Cleveland for an annual health and wellness community check-up .
Sister Mecca East, the chief operating officer of the Salaam Clinic, was also present with free resources for the uninsured and the underinsured, as bringing services to their neighborhoods allows residents who are most at risk to be proactive about their health care. Free mammograms were scheduled for more than 30 women of the neighborhood by Salaam Clinic in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic.
The Greater Cleveland Food Bank also handed out free boxed meals to the community members at the event. Councilman Jones gave away multiple gift cards and the community members also received free primary healthcare services and wellness checks from Imani Wellness.
Pull Up Neighbor provided free food, free sanitizers, and free PPE to everyone in presence. Council Jones informed the community members about the importance and ease of early voting, Famicos Foundation provided the community members with buses to and back from Cuyahoga County’s early voting station.
Speaking to the Spectrum News 1, Sister Mecca East said:
“I know the importance of what preventative care actually means to women, especially African American women. We know that African Americans already have been consumed with a lot of major health disparities, including high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease. So, COVID-19 has actually exasperated those different health conditions. So, it’s vitally important as
