ELLENSBURG, WA: A meeting of Association of Washington State International Physicians was held in Kennewick, Washington on October 27, 1991.
It was decided to send a delegation to meet the Governor to discuss the problems of International medical graduates and health care delivery, particularly the problems faced by the poor, ‘minorities, rural communities and 37 million Americans who cannot afford medical insurance. The Association was deeply concerned with the state of public health when our infant mortality is the highest among industrialized democracies and we have as many diagnosed cases of AIDS as the rest of the world combined.
It was decided to hold the first annual meeting in Ellensburg in May 1992, Antinio Novello, and Surgeon General of United States will be invited to this meeting. It was also decided to invite physicians, attorneys, other professionals, scholars, and politicians, consumed individuals from all over the country, who are interested in discussing the impending healthcare crisis.
It is felt there is a direct correlation between physician’s mobility and delivery of health care both are adversely affected by discrimination of international physicians by organized medicine and bureaucracy.
Association will consider offering scholarships to deserving minority medical students.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 15, 1991
