“We need to get to these kids earlier,” one doctor says about migrant children who may exhibit early signs of illness that are often missed
El Paso, Texas By the time Dr. Roberto"Bert" Johansson saw the toddler in the emergency room, she was vomiting, feverish, dehydrated and desperately ill with acute gastroenteritis.
The girl had been in Border Patrol custody for two days before agents rushed her to El Paso Children's Hospital. Johansson told CNN he admitted her and put her on an IV line, fluids and other treatment."She lived, but her illness had been missed," he said of that day three months ago."We need to get to these kids earlier."Pediatrician Roberto"Bert" Johansson says medical screenings for migrant children in custody are"inadequate.
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