Protesters and Supporters to announce their victory and next steps in The Hunger Strike for Healthcare Campaign

After a Monday meeting with CEO Joe Garcia of University of Illinois Medical Center  

 

CHICAGO IL –On Monday June 18, Joe Garcia, the CEO of University of Illinois Medical Center held a meeting with the Hunger Strike for Healthcare representatives including the hunger strikers themselves. In a meeting that lasted about an hour, UICMC agreed to certain demands of the Hunger Strike for Healthcare Group. 

 Father Jose Landaverde, stated, “We came into an agreement that University of Illinois Medical Center will offer the treatment needed to Lorenzo Arroyo, they also agree to continue the dialogue with us and with Rush Medical Center to address the issues of urgent medical care for those who can’t access medical care due to their immigration status.”

 University of Illinois Medical Center follows the steps of Rush University Medical Center by agreeing to a dialogue to find solutions to the issue of health treatment to individuals who lack legal status in this country. However the “fight is far from over” said a hunger striker of the campaign, “We need to continue this campaign, there are more people in need of urgent care and transplant treatment, now we are targeting Loyola Medical Center, they have refused to answer our demands therefore we continue the strike and the struggle” she concluded.