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Hidalgo County facing nursing shortage as Covid hospitalizations increase
Hidalgo County facing nursing shortage as Covid hospitalizations increase
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In response to the recent increase of Covid related hospitalizations, Hidalgo County is requesting more help from the state to send more nurses.
Hidalgo County Health Authority Dr. Ivan Melendez said the recent surge of the COVID-19 virus has led to a greater need of nurses in the Rio Grande Valley.
“All the hospitals are once again opening up COVID units and wards are getting filled with COVID people, Dr. Melendez said.
In the wake of the pandemic, a restored U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission endowed with greater funding and a firm binational commitment to strengthened cooperation on border health could be an even greater asset than it has been in the past.
A view from U.S. side of the border wall in Nogales, Ariz., in November 2017. (Peg Hunter / Flickr)
This post originally appeared on the Health Affairs Blog on July 30, 2021.
If ever a spotlight was put on the need for collaboration and a coordinated U.S. and Mexican response to the shared health vulnerabilities along the U.S.-Mexico border, the past year and a half of COVID-19’s scourge of border communities is it.