Local nonprofit hands out free flu medicine in drive-thru event as cases spike - WSOC Charlotte

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CHARLOTTE — Local nonprofits spent Friday greeting handing retired escaped flu medicine successful a giveaway lawsuit arsenic viruses spike.

Camino Health Center, a bilingual and multicultural nonprofit successful northeast Charlotte, worked with different organizations to connection escaped over-the-counter medicine.

In the thrust thru event, recipients were fixed bags with vitamins, children’s items and flu meds.

The lawsuit comes arsenic some pharmacies successful the area are having problems filling prescriptions of important drugs owed to shortages, including communal medicines for children, specified arsenic amoxicillin.

The latest information from the CDC indicates that North Carolina’s flu levels are precise high, on with the remainder of the South. The lawsuit was organized to assistance support radical retired of the exigency room.

“With the outgo of everything and inflation, we’re ever blessed to assistance retired successful immoderate mode we can,” said Lisa Szabo with NC Med Assist.

Jeannie Corzo, who works to proviso exile families with medicine, said the the giveaway is simply a blessing.

“It’s conscionable astonishing however adjuvant it is,” Corzo said. “Especially during the wintertime time, erstwhile radical person much request for these medications it’s specified a blessing, specified a blessing.”

In Friday’s lawsuit alone, implicit 1,000 families were helped. Officials said nary fiscal documents oregon ID are required.

Even though the lawsuit is over, determination are inactive ways to get escaped medicine. Once a month, you tin store astatine the MedAssist OTC Free Store, which offers escaped items.

“It’s nary antithetic than Walgreens oregon CVS, you tin store determination erstwhile a period for free,” Szabo said. “You tin get 8 items of your choosing. Our escaped OTC store is based connected need. So we don’t inquire for fiscal documents, ID, truthful everyone is welcome.”

You tin larn much astir the MedAssist OTC Free Store store and however you tin get supplies here.

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