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Mobile Health Clinic Delivers Dignified Medical Care to Montreal’s Homeless

Photo: Médecins du Monde Canada / Facebook

Doctors of the World are bringing healthcare directly to the homeless in Montreal’s Cabot Square, with a focus this year on Indigenous peoples.

Since 2014 the Montreal Mobile Health Clinic has provided safe and dignified basic medical care to homeless people in the streets, parks, shelters or other more discreet areas – right from the van.

The organization told CTV News, it aims to provide a more intimate and trusting setting for health care, ultimately it hopes those on the street will go to established hospitals. “It’s important for us to be a door to the real system because the care is just better,” stated clinic supervisor Penelope Boudreault.

The flexible clinic screens for sexually transmitted diseases and blood-borne infections and also distributes sterile injection equipment and condoms.

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