EDGEFIELD COUNTY, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) – Migrant laborers are central to the harvest at Costa Farms in Edgefield County, where 140 legal workers from Latin America help keep crops picked and the food supply moving. But many of those workers have no access to basic health care.
For more than two decades, Costa Farms and Wellstar MCG have partnered to provide preventive health care to workers on-site — including EKGs and echocardiograms.
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Dr. Jose Vazquez, an infectious disease specialist, said his research into farmworker health began after a friend collapsed and was taken to MCG…