INM conducts medical repatriation of Guatemalan migrants

The National Institute of Migration (INM) carried out the medical repatriation of three migrants of Guatemalan origin who were injured in the vehicular accident of December 9, 2021, in the state of Chiapas.At the beginning of the last month of last year, a trailer carrying more than 100 Central American migrants overturned, causing the death of 56 undocumented and dozens of injured. The National Institute of Migration (INM) of the Ministry of the Interior today carried out the medical repatriation of three migrants from Guatemala involved in the road accident of December 9, 2021 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, “he reported. Read more: 28 migrants transported in a fake ambulance are secured by the INM in OaxacaThrough a statement published on the official website of the Government of Mexico, the National Institute of Migration announced that on Saturday, January 22, it carried out the medical repatriation of three people as a mobility from Guatemala who were injured in the road in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas.He explained that, in coordination with the government of the Central American country, two of the migrants were transferred in separate ambulances from the Basic Community Hospital of Cintalapa to the border state border with the city of Tecún Umán, Guatemala.These first aid units, said the Mexican migrant, were followed by another car in which their respective relatives and the Visitor of the State Human Rights Commission (CEDH) were traveling. In addition, they were escorted by elements of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC). As part of the Mexican government’s support for the undocumented who were involved in the December 2021 crash, the third migrant, due to his medical conditions, was repatriated to Guatemala by air.” With the help of elements of grupo Beta of the INM he arrived at the Ángel Albino Corzo International Airport, municipality of Chiapa de Corzo, where he boarded – in the company of the Visitor Specialized in Migrants of the ECHR – a helicopter that would transfer him to the capital city of Guatemala, “said the INM. Read more: 65 migrants rescued crammed into a trailer in CoahuilaUntil last week, it was known that the bodies of 51 migrants who perished because of the trailer overturned, most of them from Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, had been repatriated and delivered. 341 undocumented immigrants rescued at home in Aguascalientes

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