The village of Quinhagak will build a brand new clinic to replace their old one. The Indian Health Service awarded $2 million to Quinhagak through the Small Ambulatory Program.
Native Village President Darren Cleveland says that the current clinic is in pretty bad shape.
“It’s deteriorating, it's not on any foundation, and it’s moving around with the ground shifting,” Cleveland said.
He says that he expects the new clinic to be built by the spring of 2022.
A year ago, the village of Kongiganak received the same $2 million grant to build a new clinic from IHS. That new structure will be over 2,700 square feet, almost three times larger than the old one.
Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation Communications Director Tiffany Zulkosky expects the new clinic in Kongiganak to be completed by mid-2020.
