Officials hold a strategic reunion with personnel of UNO Migration OIM They decide that health care for migrants in transit is of the most importa
Officials hold a strategic reunion with personnel of UNO Migration OIM
They decide that health care for migrants in transit is of the most importance
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Guanajuato/Gto News
The Gto Health System and the International Organization for Migration -OIM/UNO-, through the Regional Program on Migration, strengthens government strategies and capacities to care for migrants and people in transit with a gender approach and respecting human rights.
Moises Quesada, coordinator of health services of the Secretary of Health, explained that they have the security tools and actions for the health care of all the people who transit through Guanajuato lands, and they have the best Health System, strengthening the quality of service for all migrant families.
The baseline study on migration and health in Guanajuato, aims to strengthen the response of the Secretary of Health of Guanajuato, in attending to the health needs of migrants through the identification of their main health conditions, the barriers to access to health services that they may present and the good practices developed to guarantee health coverage for migrants from an approach based on respect for human rights.
In Guanajuato, the proportion of migrants has had historical oscillations between 9% and 10% of the total national migration.
Migration between Guanajuato and the United States of America has maintained a very representative relationship in recent years.
The Secretary for Migrants and International Affairs of Guanajuato found that the number of migrants that transit through the state is somewhere between 5,000 to 15,000 per year, most coming from the countries like:
- Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala and Haiti
- 10% are men
- 20% women
- 1% are transgender people
The actions that have been made to strengthen the health of migrants are:
- 56 mobile units to provide care to more than 100,000 people annually
- Evaluation and care of the sanitary conditions of the shelters that receive migrants
- Visits to migrants and indigenous day laborers to provide health care
- Timely care and access to health promotion and prevention services for returning migrants
- Health services in Guanajuato are free
- Implementation of health fairs for migrants
- Monitoring for all people
- Personal link between authorities
- Constant updating of health personnel
The Secretary for Migrants, Juan Hernandez, said that “we are proud that the OIM takes into consideration the Gto Health System, since Guanajuato is a land of migrants and that is why we know the needs of migrants and health is of the most important.”
The next actions of the SSG in Guanajuato are:
- Creation of training groups in the State Health Secretary for the continuous training of public health personnel of Guanajuato
- Technical advice from the group of OIM specialists
- Online modality
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