Dr. Argentina Servin grew up without health insurance and regular access to health care. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she's helping others in her community get the care they deserve.
“We're out in the parking lot with a huge mobile unit, like, ‘Hey, do you want to get your blood pressure checked?’ And people will come up and be like, ‘What’s this about?’ I think that’s what’s really unique, to really bring the care to the communities.”who was the son of a Project 2VIDA! volunteer and had concerns about getting vaccinated. He wanted to observe how the vaccine was administered, so he attended a pop-up, saw the different stations and asked questions.
“There's different needs in the community that we're not accounting for,” Servin stressed. “He was perhaps scared or nervous or not understanding the science. But physically seeing people getting the vaccine, how they felt OK after, how we were friendly and there in the community constantly … It’s something I had never thought about.”
An experience with her grandfather in Mexico earlier this year played a role in Servin’s desire to do this work. He contracted COVID-19 in December and isn’t a U.S. citizen, so he couldn’t cross the border to get care.“Fortunately he survived and he got his vaccine,” she continued. “I spent a lot of weekends with my grandparents so it hit home really close.”
Servin decided to become a doctor after being diagnosed with tuberculosis at age 12, her first real experience with health care. Preventive care, she explained, wasn’t emphasized in her culture. Her mom and siblings also came down with tuberculosis as well, but recovered more quickly. “Not having access to health care, my mom not knowing how to navigate the system, we all are U.S. citizens, we would have been eligible for different government-sponsored insurance, but she didn’t know,” Servin said. “It was really scary when we got sick because we didn't have access to care.”“The doctor who took care of me was a really sweet man,” she recalled. “He talked to us in Spanish so my mom could understand what he was saying.
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