Inaugural medical class at historically Black university in LA is ‘what medicine has needed’

Charles R Drew is training 60 students to serve communities where underinvestment has led to health inequities

It was too late for Sanam Ahadi’s grandmother, Karima Lutfi.

Ahadi’s family, originally from Afghanistan, had feared taking Lutfi to the hospital when she contracted the Covid-19 virus early in the pandemic. Information was low. Visitors were restricted, and the unknown was inescapable, including the virus’s possible deadliness among older adults. In Lutfi’s case, there was also a language barrier.

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