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Little Birds: migrant children tell their stories from a shelter in northern Mexico
20 Jun 2023
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Mexico
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic across Mexico, supporting treatment and infection prevention in health facilities and centres for migrants and victims of violence.
In 2020, MSF organised a range of COVID-19 emergency responses in Mexico, which had one of the world’s highest number of deaths from the virus. In May, we began working in a hospital extension unit at Los Zonkeys stadium in Tijuana, Baja California, where patients with mild and moderate COVID-19 symptoms received treatment.
In June, we handed the facility back to the health authorities. We also cared for patients with mild to severe COVID-19 in two dedicated centres set up in the campuses of Reynosa and Matamoros universities. These activities ended on 1 October.
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We adopted a mobile strategy focused on supporting infection prevention and control. Our teams visited nine states to evaluate 46 health facilities, train medical personnel, and implement staff and patient flow routes. Another COVID-19 team provided technical support and training in 40 shelters along the migration route.
In addition, our teams conducted medical, psychological and social work consultations to assist migrants trapped at the northern border. We worked in all the migrant shelters in Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, and Matamoros, including an improvised asylum seekers camp.
In Reynosa, we also continued to assist victims of violence and, in Guerrero, visited communities without access to health services due to pervasive violence. In the south, our teams continued caring for migrants through mobile clinics.
In February we published the report No Way Out on the damaging health impact of US-Mexico migration policies. In Mexico City, we run a specialised centre offering medical and mental healthcare for migrants who have been victims of torture or extreme violence in their countries of origin or on their journeys.
No. staff in 2020: 192 (FTE) » Expenditure in 2020: €7.8 million MSF first worked in the country: 1985
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