How Medical Repatriation Assists with Occupational Health for Migrants

It’s not surprising that healthcare in America is costly. Nonetheless, hospitals are required to care for patients regardless of their capacity to pay or not. When treatment is over, they are then to discharge patients to a suitable recovery place such as rehabilitation facility, nursing home or family member. Migrant workers are in a particularly precarious situation. Their work is often in high-risk industries for injuries, and their complicated legal status can make hospitals face a difficult problem of absorbing serious expenses they may never get repaid. This is where occupational health becomes key for both employers and migrants, and one of the best tools for this is medical repatriation assistance.

 

What is Medical Repatriation?

Medical repatriation is sending a person back to their home country so they can receive medical care. For the vast majority of migrant workers in America, this is Mexico. There is a wide variety of reasons why this is a good option. To begin, medical costs are a fraction of what they are in the US in Mexico. The lower costs take the financial burden off from hospitals in the US.

There’s more to it than cost as well. Medical repatriation also breaks down the language barrier so a patient can understand their diagnosis and treatment better. Also, it prevents challenging legal situations where a hospital may or may not be required to report undocumented workers to the authorities, thus jeopardizing that person’s status in the US. So what is the effect on this regarding occupational health for migrant workers?

 
 

 

How Does this Impact Occupational Health?

Migrants tend to work in some of the most dangerous jobs and as a result, if they are seriously injured, may face forced medical deportation as they don’t have the same access to Medicare and other health benefits. No healthcare access can cause a vast range of problems from financial strain to family separation and more.

Deportation hurts everyone from the patient to coworkers and employers. With medical repatriation assistance, people receive the help they need, so they do not have to worry about legal problems as well as their illness.

 

How the Process Works  

What Allista does is navigate the challenging legal hurdles that are involved. The goal is to ensure the patient gets the proper care they need while assisting with a whole range of individuals from lawyers and case managers to hospitals to make sure everything processes the right way.

Medical repatriation is one of the best tools to assist migrants who experienced an injury on the job. As a top provider for these services, Allista prides itself on the fact that it could provide peace of mind and security to patients and their families.

We understand that occupational health is essential. Allista works with several different excellent hospitals in Mexico to make sure the person receives the best care available and even partners with chronic care facilities to ensure that even those suffering from long-term conditions receive treatment.