In the past year alone, Bellevue Hospital has seen one-quarter of the nearly 30,000 visits from undocumented migrants seeking medical care in the city's public hospital system.
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“This has been the hardest work I’ve ever done,” said Dr. Ted Long, a senior vice president for New York City Health + Hospitals who helps oversee the city’s health response to the migrants. “Every asylum-seeker who has been through trauma and sometimes literal hell to get here in New York City deserves a chance, deserves to have our help to take their next step forward,” he said.Randye Retkin, the director of LegalHealth, a division of the New York Legal Assistance Group, runs a taxpayer-funded legal clinic at Bellevue Hospital where patients of all backgrounds are able to access legal services if they are referred by health care providers.
For patients whose legal needs aren’t critical emergencies, including U.S. citizens who might be dealing with issues like addiction and eviction, the wait times can be months, or they can be referred to other service providers, she said. Other social services in the city are also experiencing rises in demand from the migrant influx, including housing and nutrition programs.
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