Gupta said it was the responsibility of the government to clean the clinic, which police say was filthy, and to provide him with more instruments.
Eliza Hersh is director of the East Bay Community Law Center's Clean Slate Clinic.
Since establishing its Clean Slate Clinic a decade ago, the center has helped several thousand people obtain record-clearing remedies with the aim of reducing the collateral consequences of convictions and lowering the risk of recidivism.
We facilitated mini-makeovers of these clinics, repairing broken equipment and stocking supplies while bringing the community inside to help paint and clean the clinics alongside health workers, giving them a true stake in the process.
In second place is hedge fund manager George Soros, who has given out $7.2 billion to such diverse causes as clean-needle clinics in California and scientific research in Russia.
In addition to two schools, it also operates a library, desire farm and nutrition program, medical clinic, clean water system, and a support program for the grandmothers who care for up to 14 children at a time.
They also help disabled farmers with farm chores, clean the local clinic which has no running water twice a month, and work an experimental organic garden with the help of a agricultural specialist.
"The ability to keep a hospital or clinic clean is such a fundamental basic requirement of health care that you have to question whether a facility without clean running water or basic sanitation can adequately serve its patients," said Barbara Frost, chief executive of WaterAid.
Controlling H.I.V. in South Africa now would require an international effort on the scale of the Marshall Plan: creating incentives to produce and distribute medicines and providing clean water, sanitation, clinics, health education, refuge for women and care for children.
Never mind that they may not reflect the needs of people who, if asked, would prefer basic needs like food, shelter, education, clean water, local clinics, information and freedom".
