Keeping Us Healthy: Dr. Sal Molica

06/17/20 • 31 min

In the final episode of our health care series, we hear about the health obstacles that immigrant communities face, made all the more challenging during the coronavirus.

Ali talks to Dr. Sal Molica, a primary care physician at Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts. They talk about Codman Square’s close ties to Boston’s Haitian American community, how they’re working to improve health care access in a diverse immigrant community, and how they’re adapting amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the final episode of our health care series, we hear about the health obstacles that immigrant communities face, made all the more challenging during the coronavirus.

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