Doctors Without Borders Sent A Team To The Navajo Nation To Help With The Coronavirus Crisis
Clarissa-Jan LimBuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on May 12, 2020, at 6:17 p.m. ET
Posted on May 12, 2020, at 5:31 p.m. ET
Doctors Without Borders — an international organization that provides medical aid to people in areas stricken by war, famine, or natural disasters — has dispatched a team to the Navajo Nation in the US to help with the
coronavirus crisis unfolding on the Native American reservation.
A team of nine medical professionals arrived in New Mexico to help Pueblo communities in mid-April, and towards the end of the month they started working with the Navajo Nation too, communications officer Nico D’Auterive told BuzzFeed News.
Consisting of doctors, nurses, logisticians, and water and sanitation experts, the team is primarily there to provide guidance and support to healthcare facilities, not direct medical help, D'Auterive said. They will be there through June, and may extend their stay depending on how the situation develops in those areas...
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