Imperial Valley LGBT Resource Center free vaccine Friday

The Imperial Valley LGBT resource center will provide free Uber rides to and from the center to get the monkeypox vaccine this Friday

IMPERIAL VALLEY, Calif. (KYMA, KECY)- This Friday the Imperial Valley LGBT resources center is teaming up with Imperial County Public Health and Equality California to provide free Uber rides in order to get people vaccinated for monkeypox.

According to founder and CEO Rosa Diaz, Imperial Valley had limited services for the LGBTQ community.

"One of the things we advocate is for healthcare when it comes to this population and one of the reasons that we found well one of the things that we found early on in Imperial county was that there was limited services," said Diaz.

Diaz said every time an issue rises, a pandemic, a virus and it's affecting this community they try their best to help and with the Monkey pox virus they hope they can help as many people as they can.

For those that would like to attending this event please call the Imperial Valley LGBT resource center for more.

Reporter Karina Bazarte will continue to update this article.