The Lovelock Paiute Tribe in Nevada faces significant healthcare access challenges. To address this, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe operates a mobile health clinic, providing essential health services at events like the annual health fair. Attendees, such as Gabriel Bourne, share how this mobile unit dramatically improves access to healthcare, helping them receive overdue vaccinations, eye appointments, and cancer screenings. Nurses from the Fallon Tribal Health Center operate the clinic, illustrating its importance in overcoming geographical and logistical barriers to healthcare for tribal members.
"Having access to this, I was able to get some shots I needed - that I should've probably had a long time ago but didn't get," said Bourne, smiling beneath his gray mustache.
"I'm able to get my eye appointment, which I've needed glasses for a while," Bourne said. "Along with some cancer screening setups, and follow up with the doctor to see labs and everything else."
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