Officials have discovered dozens of unlicensed retirement homes in northern Mexico, raising fears that so far undetected coronavirus clusters may emerge in the thinly regulated sector.
FILE PHOTO: Medical workers carry a woman on a stretcher to be transferred to the hospital, in Guadalupe, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico May 7, 2020. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo
Officials have not said if they have found evidence of outbreaks in the unregistered facilities, but said families should take home their elderly relatives. Authorities say at least 19 people have died after catching the coronavirus in registered retirement homes across Mexico - a fraction of the thousands of deaths in such facilities in Europe and the United States.
“These long-term care facilities are not heavily regulated and don’t always have the capacity to implement protocols,” said Antonio Trujillo, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who has written extensively on elderly care in Latin America.
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