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