By Vittoria Brucoli | Communication and Fundraising manager
During these months of operation, the MedAcross Mobile Clinic, together with local partners DISAC and St. Louis Hospital, has traveled around the Ranong region visiting Burmese migrant communities living far from medical clinics providing free examinations and medicines to more than 600 patients a month.
Burmese communities live in oil palm plantations and city suburbs next to fish industries. They work in jobs that no one else wants to do for many hours a day. They have no health care because they are often illegal immigrants.
In addition to the Mobile Clinic, MedAcross also organizes trainings on first aid and prevention of common diseases within migrant communities. In this way we can affect the education of young migrants, with the goal of limiting widespread diseases and accidents that make migrants' lives difficult.
Themes of the workshops are:
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