Dartmouth and Indian Health Service Partner to Help Native Americans

 

ICTMN Staff: November 26, 2012

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"Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) have partnered with the Indian Health Service to promote health and develop leaders in Indian country.....“This is the next step in our commitment to Native Americans and to helping Native communities become healthier and more vibrant,” says Kalina Newmark ’11, senior presidential fellow of global health, IHS relations coordinator at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, in a Dartmouth press release."

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 Finally! This article I feel is one of the first to show some type of activism that isn't completely depressing or crapping on other things that people have down to push stereotypes on Native people. There is finally going to be a change for Native people and it is for the better. It is time that everyone steps up to the plate to help take care of a problem that westerners created. There wouldn't be a need for this, if we never would have come to America, but you can't change history. One can only learn from it and grow and try and make better choices in the next few decades. That doesn't mean that it will happen, but one can hope. No one should be denied access to appropriate healthcare. That isn't a choice. It should be a human right to be healthy and cared for. But Native individuals are not the only one's who don't have healthcare, but they are a little worse off than most. I want there to be a large social movement in which people demand healthcare. I am completely about activism. I want the world to change. I want healthcare to change. I want there to be a socialist healthcare. HEALTHCARE FOR ALL! MONEY SHOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE!