Medical Society of New Jersey and Ocean County Medical Society Donate toTent City

[Applause] [Music] as the president of the Medical Society of Ocean County uh we feel uh the need to help out uh medically uh the people here in tent city we do not have a shelter for these people and uh so they're in our County and we feel a certain responsibility to help out in any way we can so today we've taken the first step that we could just to provide some supplies um to keep them warm in the winter some basic medical supplies uh to help them out you know at this point it's our first step you know we reached out to the members of our society to uh take the first step and provide anything that we could uh to to come out here to Medical uh to provide medical supplies and um for one particular individual uh needed uh medicine for his congestive heart failure and uh we're uh we're providing uh what we can um from where we are I getar two seconds do your first I guess talk about this Camp uh this is Tent City Lakewood New Jersey and this Camp survives on donations there is no homeless shelter in Ocean County uh no place in Ocean County for the homeless to go uh typically uh Social Services in the past have been giving given a one-way bus ticket to Atlantic City so the residents of Ocean County have not had a place so this is this is ocean County's homeless shelters there's about 80 individuals here uh residing in Tent City about 25 uh 25% female and a very diverse Community but we completely survive on donations the kindness of the community to survive here and of course we're going into another winter we have no idea what this winter is going to look like how much snow we're going to have of course it's going to be cold there going to be uh you know we're going to have short days cold nights and we've got to get ready we've got to get ready now so we're doing our best to get the homeless situated so they'll be warm and comfortable uh for this winter but these donations are critical uh to the well-being of tent city again we we had a fellow here by the name of uh Marcus he uh he has congestive heart failure he goes to the hospital every so often and not realizing it that he did not have his prescription the last time we called the ambulance he had to be taken to the emergency room a couple of days ago uh so again these uh medical cards that have been given us today that'll uh discount the prescriptions that are given are going to help us with people like Marcus get their prescriptions so that they don't have to be uh you know going to the emergency room every so often with problems like congestive of heart failure and some of the other issues that they might have down here like high blood pressure or diabetes so again you know medical issues are a part of any society any community and so no no different in tense City people get sick in tense City people uh suffer in tense City with ailments and so uh the medical uh Community helping out ten City again a very important part of uh of helping us out here in ten city are the cards like fully prepaid or is it just maybe a certain percent off of what the cost of the drug yeah I think it's 50% off the cost of the medicine of the prescription you know again so again that's uh a big big help to Tent City