A Cuban doctor waiting for asylum in the US has become the only full-time physician at a makeshift encampment for 2,500 migrants in Mexico.
Under a canopy on the edge of a squalid encampment, a young physician named Dairon Elisondo Rojas holds office hours every day from 10am to 4pm.
Dr Elisondo, who has a speciality in critical care, has experience working in challenging environments thanks to Cuba’s medical-training program, which dispatches newly minted doctors on missions to impoverished allied countries. Dr Elisondo and his girlfriend got an apartment with other Cuban asylum applicants, and he found a job on the assembly line of a plant in Matamoros that churns out cases for cosmetics, he said.
“Thank God for the Cuban doctor,” said Luis, a Honduran migrant whose family has been living in the encampment since September.
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