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Inquiry into the number and nature of needle exchange programs
1:22:09
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46 sec
Council Member Feliz questions Acting Health Commissioner Michelle Morse about the number of mobile needle exchange programs and whether they truly exchange needles or simply provide them.
- Morse offers to follow up with specific numbers of programs
- Feliz presses for an estimate of true exchange programs versus those that just provide needles
- Morse defers, stating she would need to follow up with specifics
Oswald Feliz
1:22:09
Approximately, how many needle exchange programs mobile needle exchange programs do we have?
1:22:14
And also, are these programs truly exchange programs, or do we just provide them?
1:22:18
Call them exchange, but it we're not really exchanging anything.
Michelle Morse
1:22:22
Thank you for the question, council member.
1:22:24
We do have a number of different mobile programs, that are designed really to engage people where they are.
1:22:31
We'd be happy to follow-up with you, about the specific numbers, of how many of those programs we we offer.
Oswald Feliz
1:22:39
How many of them are exchange programs?
1:22:41
What percentage of you were to guess?
1:22:44
Exchange versus provide calling them exchange programs, but not really exchanging needles, just providing them.
1:22:50
Very misleading name, by the way.
Michelle Morse
1:22:52
We would be happy to follow-up with you, on those specifics.