A nonprofit clinic offering free surgeries and other medical procedures to homeless or uninsured residents and those who are illegal immigrants is opening in Orange County next spring.
The Lestonnac Free Clinic in the City of Orange will be renovating a space for a free surgery center, the first of its kind in Orange County, according to clinic officials.
Instead of a groundbreaking, the clinic hosted June 21 what it called a “wall-breaking” ceremony with sledgehammers tearing down a wall with text on it that read “Barriers to Healthcare.”
“Today has been an amazing day. First start of a free surgery. Something that has not occurred in the United States to this day,” Lestonnac Free Clinic Executive Director Edward Gerber said during the ceremony. “This is amazing to have the opportunity to be able to finish a project that helps people get to the end of a disease.”…