Hyde Park Victory Church hosted a free community health fair in Jackson on Saturday.The event featured free blood pressure checks, BMI counseling, insurance education, clothing giveaways, and door prizes. Organizers said the goal was to bring important healthcare resources directly to the community and connect people with services they may not otherwise have access to.“I’m an advocate for being preventive,” said Kimberly Sanders, co-pastor of Hyde Park Victory Church. “We want to be preventive. We don’t want to wait until we have some type of health emergency, a stroke or a heart attack, or something like that.”Registered nurse Laverne Watts said health fairs like this are especially important in addressing long-standing health disparities in African-American communities.“It’s generally known African-Americans have health disparities, and those are the things we try to target with these health fairs,” Watts said. “I have been doing health fairs in my church for about 20 years.”Watts said many churches and organizations usually reach out to her for guidance on hosting health events in their own communities, and it's something she enjoys doing.Sanders said she hopes to make the health fair an annual event as community health outreach efforts continue to expand across the metro area.
Hyde Park Victory Church hosted a free community health fair in Jackson on Saturday.
The event featured free blood pressure checks, BMI counseling, insurance education, clothing giveaways, and door prizes. Organizers said the goal was to bring important healthcare resources directly to the community and connect people with services they may not otherwise have access to.
“I’m an advocate for being preventive,” said Kimberly Sanders, co-pastor of Hyde Park Victory Church. “We want to be preventive. We don’t want to wait until we have some type of health emergency, a stroke or a heart attack, or something like that.”
Registered nurse Laverne Watts said health fairs like this are especially important in addressing long-standing health disparities in African-American communities.
“It’s generally known African-Americans have health disparities, and those are the things we try to target with these health fairs,” Watts said. “I have been doing health fairs in my church for about 20 years.”
Watts said many churches and organizations usually reach out to her for guidance on hosting health events in their own communities, and it's something she enjoys doing.
Sanders said she hopes to make the health fair an annual event as community health outreach efforts continue to expand across the metro area.
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