In a bid to help vulnerable and uninsured Americans, a group of Muslim doctors in Toledo, Ohio has opened a new clinic to provide free medical service for people of all faiths, Toledo Blade reported.
In a bid to help vulnerable and uninsured Americans, a group of Muslim doctors in Toledo, Ohio has opened a new clinic to provide free medical service for people of all faiths, Toledo Blade reported.
“We had a meeting and said basically, ‘We need to look for opportunities to give back to our community, our neighbors,’ and this idea of starting a free clinic was hatched,” said Dr. Sulaiman Abawi, an emergency medicine physician at Fulton County Health Center.
“All of us feel a sense of wanting to give back and wanting to think about more than ourselves and our families,” he added.
With no physical location, the doctors first volunteered at the area’s homeless shelters, then held semi-regular clinics at Toledo Masjid Al-Islam, a mosque in North Toledo. Later on, Muslim endocrinologist, Dr. Mahmood Moosa offered space at his office where they opened Halim Clinic.
