Caring for the vulnerable: Medical volunteers help traumatized assault survivors at Migrant shelters
Since he began volunteering two months ago for weekend shifts at a clinic in one of this border city’s largest shelters, Dr. Brian Elmore has treated about 100 migrants for respiratory viruses and a handful of more serious emergencies. But it is a problem he has not yet managed to address that worries him the most – the worsening trauma that so many migrants carry after long journeys north that often involve witnessing murders and suffering from kidnappings and sexual assault. “Most of our patients have symptoms of PTSD — I want to initiate a screening for every patient,”...
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