Daniel Clarke, of Nesmith, South Carolina, came to the clinic with his siblings and parents to have his teeth worked on.
BECKLEY, W.Va. — When Denise Battle arrived outside the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center at 3 a.m. Wednesday, it was pitch black outside.
Battle waited for two more hours inside her parked car before joining the line of people forming outside the building, where others had been camping out since the day before, in the rain, for the doors to open.
“I’m thankful that I waited in the rain,” she said. “I’m thankful that I came here.”
Battle had driven six hours from Washington, D.C., after seeing a Facebook post about a mega “pop-up” clinic organized, in part, by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, of which she is a member. Battle was there for what she called a dental emergency.
The Your Best Pathway to Health clinic, a three-day medical clinic that offers free health care on a first-come, first-served basis, opened its doors at 7 a.m. Wednesday…
