the district health director blames foreigners for the health systems poor condition. he claims that the fault lies with immigrants who have no papers and enter northern ghana from neighboring countries i love people what in year i mean to share in the lives of those that we have you know i yet we are not in because they are not nationals and they have also want to reduce and so do i tell in the numbers does their ease and that's how come you realize that our budget that very much a budget that the government you know chairs out and wildly different are for sure because you don't anticipate and if i did not. do your numbers of people illegal immigrants who are here and but to spit in in our you know look at things that are provided for in a national sword that also is a problem. in two thousand and eleven ghana's economy growth rate reached fourteen point four percent. using the profits from gold oil as its driving force ghana became at least on paper a middle income country. and is the ninth country in africa to reach this position. the i.m.f. policies and the governm

brenda story the director of mission neighborhood health center and we have been in the mission and excessior districts since 1967 serving immigrant community and i am here for the request for the funds and the care of the remaining uninsured and many as you know will be the undocumented and our families that come to the health center they work very, very hard. some of them work two jobs and this job -- they work to support san francisco. they support the infrastructure of the city and we need to keep them healthy so they provide for us. we need to provide for them. mission neighborhood health center provides care to about 4,000 to 5,000 immigrants who will continue to be uninsured. the city of san francisco is estimating that about 20,000 uninsured will remain. about 25% of the families will continue to come to the health center so we need the city's support in helping us do this work and keeping our communities healthy. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is mark alton and the father of an 11 year old, a teacher at betty carmichael

director of mexican language at [speaker not understood] school that is saving the mission district and the city of san francisco for the past 45 years, providing work force development projects and health, hospitality, [speaker not understood], office technology, and graduated over 28,000 students, who are parents of our san francisco unified school district. as you may also know, i have been a member of the [speaker not understood] for 12 years. and i know how much time and work you have to invest, and i wanted to take this opportunity with everyone here speaking this afternoon to thank you for your work on behalf of our city. i'm here to ask you to take the necessary steps to make the mexican museum a reality. as an educator, i see things from the eyes of our children and young adults and, of course, the culture value of the mexican museum will strengthen their [speaker not understood], sensitivity, and self-esteem that as you know, the children of our community needs so much. i know that you have to ask questions and do your homework, but at the end ~ i know you will support this project that will make the mexican museum a trust a reality. to the city, our children and to the latino

district 5. and i'm here to speak on the general topic of the need for mental health services in our city. and basically we find it unconscionable that we have a director of public health and certain staff from the mayor's office who are claiming that we have enough mental health services and there's a certain deal on the table with cpmc where there is zero psych beds in there. at the same time, we have many physicians who would love to be here who are fearful of retaliation, retaliation whether they work under dph or retaliation whether they work under sutter cpmc in particular. there were some questions for the supervisors. knowing that some supervisors have been going to bat for mental health, we greatly appreciate that. obviously this is not an issue that is going away. last week i understand there was a bielenson hearing where the director of public health had many comments directed towards her in regards to possibly cutting programs next year especially in regards to mental health, up to 25%. so, how are we getting a story over here that we have enough psychiatric facilities, whether inpatient and outpatient and other services, and then on the ot

director of mexican language at [speaker not understood] school that is saving the mission district and the city of san francisco for the past 45 years, providing work force development projects and health, hospitality, [speaker not understood], office technology, and graduated over 28,000 students, who are parents of our san francisco unified school district. as you may also know, i have been a member of the [speaker not understood] for 12 years. and i know how much time and work you have to invest, and i wanted to take this opportunity with everyone here speaking this afternoon to thank you for your work on behalf of our city. i'm here