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Volunteer Doctors Say City Of Chicago Is Set To Give Them Access To Migrant Shelters
CBS 2 has learned the City of Chicago is working on a new plan to provide medical care for migrants living in shelters.
February 22, 2024
CHICAGO (CBS) -- CBS 2 has learned the City of Chicago is working on a new plan to provide medical care for migrants living in shelters.
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The plan is not official from the city just yet. But medical volunteers say they are one step closer to being able to provide basic medical care to the thousands of new arrivals staying at shelters.
For months and months, volunteers had been asking the city for access to migrant shelters to provide basic health care to asylum seekers living in them. That call became even louder when a 5-year-old migrant child staying at a shelter in Pilsen died in September.
