Three years after the storm, doctors say a special clinic is the best way to keep up with their patients as people come back to different parts of the city.

It's the only way for a new population to afford heath care.

The space may be tight but the health care here is top rate.

Families who can't afford to see a doctor depend on the Tulane Children's Health Project for their medical care and medications.

"Some would not have access to any care whatsoever. Others would probably go to emergency room to get that care which is very costly and so by us providing this care we are saving tremendous amount of taxpayers' money," says Carlos Naranjo, the Tulane Clinic Case Manager.

The two mobile health units opened up just two weeks after the storm, traveling around the area with Tulane doctors providing full primary care. It's also a place to train future pediatricians, seeing nearly 40 patients a day.

"In the beginning we saw a lot of people who couldn't get access to their meds: the shots they needed, their shots they didn't have access to, their shot records to get back into school, a lot of asthma and allergies initially," says  Tulane Pediatrician and clinic Medical Director  Dr. Jaya Aysola.

Now many patients are Hispanic, families who came in search of rebuilding construction jobs. Four-year-old Naomi Rivas has asthma. Her mother speaks no English and has no insurance or governmental help. Neither does another mother who brings her 5-year-old fraternal twins to the clinic. She says without the clinic they would never be able to see a doctor.

Still, 3 years after the storm, two-thirds of people come in for mental health treatment, so a second van is dedicated just to that.

In the mental health unit, they have a psychiatrist from New Orleans Adolescent Hospital as well as three social workers and they help patients with everything from play therapy to parenting skills to family counseling to addiction to trauma to medication and behavior modification.

"We see a lot of young child trauma.  The problem with children and post-traumatic stress disorder in this population is that they don't come with that label," says Dr.  Aysola.

This special therapy room lets children tell about their pain through puppets. Parents and teachers might not know that bad behavior, attention problems or going backwards in speech or toilet training could be trauma. And thanks to grant money it is now being treated.

The clinic is for patients up to 24-years-old.

It is in the lower 9th ward on Mondays,  near Jesuit High School on Tuesdays, at Andrew Jackson school in Chalmette on Wednesdays and in Gentilly at Pierre Capdeau school on Thursdays.

To make an appointment in English, call 988-0545, to speak to someone in Spanish, call 858-0155.