Community health workers are stepping in to provide critical services and information in rural areas with few hospitals or doctorsWhen Claudia Salazar and her family migrated to San Elizario, Texas, a small city in El Paso county, they settled into a colonia - informal, low-income housing often found in rural parts along the US-Mexico border. Their house was small, but had enough room for her four kids, and before long, it felt like home.But the remoteness of their new home soon presented problems - Salazar suddenly found herself in a medical desert. The nearest hospital is a 35-minute drive away. Even that is challenging to get to - the community's mostly farm worker population works 10- to 12-hour days, and often lacks adequate time to travel for medical attention between workdays. Continue reading...
'We have to survive': the women filling the gap in Texas borderlands' medical deserts
2. února 2023 11:30
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Zdroj: The Guardian