With the influx of migrants increasing, some employees at The Boston Medical Center are calling on Massachusetts to issue a state of emergency.
The BMC has been working with the state to accommodate migrants for months. Now, with as many as 100 migrants inside each day,, saying it would focus its attention on migrants who need medical attention and redirecting other families to nearby shelters.
"Part of the concern with the state not being part of this conversation is that there are people showing up in the middle of the night, and there is nowhere for them to go," said Emily Swisher-Rosa, a midwife at Boston Medical Center. Swisher-Rosa says the hospital is seeing an increase in pregnant women and children. They show up to the emergency department, and at times, space is so limited that migrants sleep in the lobby and the triage center.Sign up for NECN newsletters."We need someplace where people can arrive at any hour of the day and they can have some temporary shelter," Swisher-Rosa said.
Other migrants who have been sent away from the hospital are staying in nearby shelters. Jean St. Paul travelled through 11 countries to get here from Haiti, and says the conditions inside these shelters aren't great.
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