Kentucky State University is launching a rolling health clinic program in partnership with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.

Three mobile health units equipped for health screenings and nutritional programs will be deployed to Eastern and western Kentucky and Louisville to provide services to local communities.

Lacking health care access.

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Everybody's fortunate, like you and I and some people, by the time they go to the doctor, it's already too late.

So this is basically for preventative, uh, testing and also health screening.

And as part of that, we have a nutrition programs as well.

You know, we view food as medicine as well.

This pocket of the of the state has a pretty high prevalence all from diabetes hypertension and this belongs to one of those prime corridors for all different types of cancers with a predominant section of population being from the low income groups.

Health care access to health care still testing as a primary challenge.

We thought it is a good idea.

We identified this as a one significant pocket where we are needed most.

What we can bring to the community is a nutrition education and using that nutrition education as the base addressed some of these chronic health conditions.

I've lost plenty of plenty of family due to health care, you know, issues.

Being able to go out and reach people that don't have the opportunity or transportation income to receive the best health, you know, resources, it's it's great.

I mean, it's amazing opportunity to have here here in our community.

We see a great opportunity for the budding nursing students, students who are on the path to become health care providers, to truly understand the community needs on one hand and serve the community needs.

This is a wonderful vehicle.

This is a wonderful channel for them to get to understand very closely what those true challenges are and what possible solutions solutions can there be.

This is part of our mission.

We are one of the two land grant institution in the state, and our mission encompasses this, uh, working in a rural area where we have health care, desert.

And this mobile, as I said earlier, is going to help us reach that last mile, taking health care to people who need us the most.

To see something like this in our counties is amazing because, I mean, we don't have things like that.

Good things usually don't happen to us around here in our county or surrounding counties.

That kind of feels like we're just off to our self sometimes.

But for them to chose us, you, our county and to partner with HTC, it's been a it's going to be great.

The program is expected to officially hit the road in January.

No insurance is required for treatment.