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The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) board of directors recently unanimously voted to grant $24,500 to the Survivors of Torture International to provide medical, mental health and dental services over a year’s time for about 40 East County residents, between the ages of 20 and 35, who are considered survivors of politically motivated torture.
Since 1997, Survivors of Torture International, a San Diego-based non-profit organization, says it has used a holistic healing program to help more than 500 torture survivors from more than 40 countries reclaim their strength and vitality resulting from traumas suffered at the hands of brutal dictators and governments.
The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD), a public agency that supports various health-related community programs and services in San Diego’s East County, serves as landlord of Grossmont Hospital on behalf of local taxpayers. Founded in 1952, the District is governed by a five-member board of directors, each elected to four-year terms, who represent nearly 500,000 people residing within the District's 750 square miles in San Diego's East County. For more information about GHD, visit www.grossmonthealthcare.org.
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