The Yucca Valley Rotary Club is teaming up with the Hi-Desert Shrine club to screen local children up to the age of 18 for a variety of conditions and possible admission to a Shriner’s Children’s hospital. Those hospitals are free for their patients. The screening will be held from 10 to 2 tomorrow Saturday, January 23, at the Yucca Valley Masonic Lodge on Theater Road, behind Builders Supply. The clinic will identify those conditions treated at Shriners Hospital in Los Angeles such as burn scars or other scaring that needs plastic surgery, cleft palates and lips, bone, muscle or joint problems, children with missing limbs or the need of prosthetics, malformations that require reconstructive surgery, Cerebral Palsy, other debilitating diseases or conditions, and other conditions that require children to use a walker or wheelchair. This is NOT a health fair for general checkups, or illnesses unrelated to the types listed above. For more information, call Cynthia at 760-365-1988.
