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MUCH-NEEDED HELP
SE Queens volunteers provide meals for frontline health care workers, struggling residents
BY BILL PARRY
State Senator Leroy Comrie
is leading an effort to deliver
food to frontline healthcare
workers at Queens Hospital
Center in Jamaica which experienced
a significant influx
of COVID-19 patients over the
past four weeks, and to struggling
residents who are disabled
and/or elderly with the
help of community members
who are eager to give back.
Volunteers packed, sorted
and delivered hundreds of
both hot meals and groceries
to community residents in
need last week with a graband
go operation outside his
district office.
“Residents reach out every
day asking how they can
help, they want to give back to
the frontline workers,” Comrie
said. “There is a significant
population in southeast
Queens that wants to volunteer
their efforts and time in a
safe and effective way and we
want to continue to harness
that positive energy by partnering
with our veterans, SEQ
UO Front and our small businesses
like Maxine’s on the
Boulevard, Remax Realty, and
the Door Restaurant.”
Those who would like to
Volunteers provide grab-and-go meals outside state Senator Leroy Comrie’s district office last
week. Courtesy of Comrie’s offi ce
participate in future efforts
to support frontline and other
essential workers can contact
Comrie’s office at 718-765-6359.
Meanwhile, the senator
joined a slate of local, state,
and federal elected leaders
from southeast Queens in
partnering with Advanced
Cardiovascular Diagnostics to
provide free mobile cardiovascular
testing, detection, and
prevention services to residents
of southeast Queens.
As hospitals, particularly
emergency departments,
manage the proliferation of
COVID-19 patients across the
city, cardiologists and other
healthcare professionals have
feared people at risk for heart
attack and stroke are losing
access to preventative and lifesaving
care.
“Our hospital system has
braved unchartered territory
by expanding capacity
and taking on unprecedented
numbers of patients due to the
ongoing pandemic,” Comrie
said. “But we know there are
still thousands of southeast
Queens residents who are
at risk for heart attack and
stroke that cannot wait for this
outbreak to pass to be assessed
by medical professionals. Our
partnership with Advanced
Cardiovascular Diagnostics
helps fill the gap and brings
attention to non-COVID-19 ailments
that are still affecting
folks in our communities.”
The mobile van will operate
outside of the Robert Ross
Johnson Family Life Center at
172-17 Linden Blvd. in Jamaica.
For the safety of patients and
medical staff, strict adherence
to social distancing guidelines
will be applied at the site.
Reach reporter Bill Parry by
e-mail at bparry@schnepsmedia.
com or by phone at (718)
260–4538.
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