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Northeast Philly is a health care desert. But its communities are fighting over a new health center.

“There is a real need, and these people are underserved,” said Mingchu Pearl Huynh, founder of the Northeast Philadelphia Chinese Association.

A poster reads “Health Center Now,” at a meeting where the Philadelphia Department of Public Health presented and took public comment at First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pa. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024.
A poster reads “Health Center Now,” at a meeting where the Philadelphia Department of Public Health presented and took public comment at First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pa. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024.Read moreMonica Herndon / Staff Photographer