IMSS: Migrants Crossing Through Mexico to Be Eligible for Health Care EFE
go to original June 23, 2013

Official picture of the Chancellors Meeting from Mexico, Central America, Dominican Republic and Colombia, in the city of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, 21 June 2013. (EFE)

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico - Mexico promised to offer medical care to migrants crossing its territory at a meeting in which that country, Central America, Colombia and the Dominican Republic worked on an integration plan that goes well beyond economic accords.

Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade announced his nation's commitment at the Friday press conference that closed the meeting with his counterparts from Central America, Colombia and the Dominican Republic aimed at reviewing the regional agenda and making progress with Mesoamerican integration projects.

At the conference in San Cristobal de Las Casas in the Mexican state of Chiapas, they also analyzed such topics as migration, which particularly affects Mexico, since people in their hundreds of thousands cross its territory each year, most of them from Central America on their way to the United States in hopes of finding a better life.

Meade said that at the meeting, the director general of the Mexican Social Security Institute, or IMSS, Jose Antonio Gonzalez Anaya, announced "the decision of the Mexican government to make mobile medical care units available to any migrants who need them."

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