No patient left behind: Bringing health care to the most vulnerable
As a family physician in Hamilton, Gina Agarwal sees first-hand the impact of poverty on the health of her patients. Of her more than 1,000 patients, there are those who can’t afford healthy food, while others can’t afford food at all. Some do not have money for the bus fare to come to appointments, so she makes house calls, often to residents in social housing.
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