Bill to allow undocumented Marylanders to apply for health coverage through the state advances

At the Casa Rubén Foundation’s mobile clinic, a six-year-old patient came in with a condition Dr. Ligia Peralta said was completely preventable with proper access to care. The child had a cold, a stuffy nose and a cough that wouldn’t let up. By the time his parents brought the child in to see Peralta, he had developed an infection of the sinuses and accompanying complications: an abscess and a bone infection.