(Audio) Community Health Fair - Conversation With TinaMaria Fernandez and Elizabeth Thayer

Canon Rath talks with TinaMaria Fernandez and Elizabeth Thayer about the upcoming Community Health Fair event this Friday and Saturday at North Platte High School. 

  

NORTH PLATTE, NEB - The Community Health Fair is going on this Friday and Saturday at North Platte Highschool. The health fair is heading into its second year after last year it was held for Hispanic focus healthcare fair. "As we look at this year our community continues to diversify, we thought it would be important to that up to the entire community especially focusing on minorities and underserved," said TinaMaria Fernandez. "We reached out to many other entities in the community, got everyone at the table and were throwing a large community health fair." 

There are many services offered to families but a big goal that the health fair is committed to is helping families get their kids ready for school whether its a physicals, check up, or shots. "Our goal is to try and help them have a one stop shop to get enrolled for school," said Elizabeth Thayer. "We are looking for families who need vaccines, who need physicals for their kids, who need those pre offerings before they can enroll and then we are going to be able to get them enrolled right then at the high school." 

The event is free to the public and offers a wide variety of activities to do as well. There will be educational presentations throughout the event, activities for the kids to do while they are waiting and they can earn free items. There will also be language access provided to non-English speakers. The event is at North Platte High School from Friday 4pm-7pm central time and Saturday 1pm - 3pm central time. For more information about the event is, listen to the podcast above. Check out the graphic below for times and directions to the high school.