Doctors speak of families keeping scruffy cats in shelter rooms to scare off rats - nightmare conditions for kids with asthma. Among the first patients were three young brothers, each in pajama jumpers, each skinny and listless. Advocates for the homeless blame the city for perpetuating some of the health problems. Giuliani wants children to suffer. At the South Bronx shelter, the bus teemed with squirming, coughing and wheezing kids.
Doctors insist on regular checkups.
The project arranges car service for patients needing the care of a specialist. Follow-up appointments are made. You don't look so stressed out today,'' Bowen tells Ms. Holmes as she steadies her 15-month old daughter, Sielina, on an examination table. After finding swelling in the girl's lymph nodes, Bowen orders a tuberculosis test as a precaution and prescribes antibiotics.