QUESTION
How did new arrivals at the shelter receive health care?
0:43:42
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New arrivals at a shelter receive health care through recommendations and guidance from immigrants who have been in the shelter longer.
- The individual managed to receive health care after being recommended by previous immigrants at a shelter.
- Immigrants residing longer in the shelter share procedures to obtain health care and other necessities with new arrivals.
- A communal support system forms among shelter residents, where they assist each other in accessing services.
- The testimony highlights the importance of community guidance for healthcare access among shelter residents.
Gale Brewer
0:43:42
And the health care, did that come when you first came in in terms of getting either Medicaid or NYC Health, how did the health care come about?
UNKNOWN
0:44:02
Medical.
UNKNOWN
0:44:24
I managed to get I I received health care.
0:44:26
I was recommended by other immigrants who had been in that shelter arrive in that shelter before I did.
0:44:34
So they they explained to me the procedure in order to have shelter.
0:44:37
So basically, he he got it from got a recommendation from other immigrants who were who had been in that that same shelter for longer.
0:44:52
So, basically, we became sort of a family when we have new new people coming in.
0:44:57
We tell them the same thing.
0:44:59
We explain to them how to get health care and how to get whatever we can get.
0:45:03
We help each other.
