Tulum, Quintana Roo — A growing number of residents from irregular settlements seeking medical care has drained supplies of some medicines at the Coin Tree foundation, the organization’s director, Rocío Ocaña, said.
Ocaña said the most common reasons for consultation are gastrointestinal illness, fever, diarrhea and infections, and that more families from these neighborhoods are turning to the foundation for treatment.
Among the medicines that have run out, she named deworming drugs and treatments for infections. Ocaña attributed the shortages to rising demand, which has cut into the stock available to provide care.
The director linked those health needs to the economic hardship facing families in Tulum’s irregular settlements. She said both requests for medical attention and the need for medicines continue to grow among that population.
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