It was a gorgeous Saturday morning and one of his two days off a month from work, but Lakhwinder Singh had to spend it inside a clinic on South Park Street, waiting.
….Singh’s bright orange turban was a welcome splash of color in the clinic, where about a dozen people with illnesses from diabetes to stomach pain waited … and waited. For Singh, it took 4 hours before he got his pills. But patients at South Side MEDiC Clinic rarely complain. Although only open on Saturday mornings, the clinic is free, the medical care is expert and caring, and few patients there can afford to go anywhere else.