President Raúl Mulino said that he does not know why Doctors Without Borders was excluded from Panama “because it is an international organization that provides a very good humanitarian service.” The previous government expelled the NGO in February of this year
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will return to providing care to migrants crossing the Darien jungle. This Thursday, October 10, the president of Panama, Raúl Mulino. He said in a press conference that he has no objection to the return of the NGO.
“For me they can return, as long as they coordinate with the competent health and safety entities,” said Mulino, as reported. The Press from Panama.
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The president maintained that he does not know why Doctors Without Borders was excluded from Panama “because it is an international organization that I believe provides a very good humanitarian service.”
At the end of February, Doctors Without Borders denounced an increase in sexual violations and the “brutality” suffered by many migrants in the Darién jungle, on the border between Colombia and Panama.
Since March 4, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) suspended medical care for migrants crossing the Darién by order of the Panamanian authorities, who alleged that the NGO did not have a current collaboration agreement with the Ministry of Health.
In 2023, MSF carried out 59,877 medical and nursing consultations (35% of which were for patients under 15 years of age and 53% for women and girls), 2,978 mental health consultations and performed 24,762 cures at the exit of the jungle.
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