Agricultural Seasonal Worker Clinic and Clinicas De Salud Para Trabajadores Agricolas Migratorios

Clinicas De Salud Para Trabajadores Agricolas Migratorios: Their focus isn t groceries so much as a unique health office, Clinicas De Salud Para Trabajadores Agricolas Migratorios, or Agricultural Seasonal Worker Clinic , housed in the food chain extra space. The clinic was created to serve the more than 4,000 migrant farm workers toiling at farms and greenhouses in the region south of Brantford, according to The Star. These folks work long hours and have no transportation. Some don t speak the language, said Peter Szota, executive director of the Grand River Community Health Centre, which runs the clinic. This is a great example of breaking down the barriers for access and Migrant farm workers have been lining up at Simcoe Town Centre every Thursday or Friday evening since May for a free shuttle bus to the Real Canadian Superstore three kilometres away. Designed to eliminate some of the systemic barriers migrant workers face in getting basic health care, the pilot project has been a resounding success reducing visits by such workers to the Norfolk General Hospital by 80 per cent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.