How Trump's Migration Ordinance Will Affect American Health

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Doctors from 6 affected countries provide vital medical care to people in low-income areas of the United States.

The second attempt by the Trump administration to ban travel from 6 countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen - can have serious consequences not only for citizens of countries that do not yet have a visa to enter the US, but also for the arrival of doctors in America .

A group of 10 researchers notes that if Trump’s new policy slows the immigration of doctors from these regions, then Americans from poor regions will suffer the most, reports The Huffington Post.

“The people who have been hit hardest by the executive order in terms of health are Trump supporters in the Midwest,” said Peter Ganong, an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Chicago. “It’s especially sad when people who voted for Trump end up getting worse health care because of it.”

Because of the general uncertainty regarding the travel of immigrants during the administration of this administration, Trump's second migration decree only aggravates the fear that some immigrant doctors face who want to visit their families at home. Because of this, some doctors will decide that life in the US is too unstable to continue medical practice there.

“This policy has been unstable, and it is evolving,” he said. “We have a lot of personal friends who are doctors who are afraid to leave the country because they don’t know if the rules will change when they go outside the country.”

How do immigrant doctors fill in health gaps

To bring attention to the positive impact these migrants have on people in the United States, Ganong and his colleagues started the Immigrant Doctor Project, an interactive map that shows how important doctors from these 6 countries are.

Right now, more than 7 thousands of doctors from 6 affected countries are working in the USA, and they provide 14 million calls to doctors every year - 2,3 million of which are in areas that lack medical care. The cities where the highest proportion of physicians from forbidden countries live and work will suffer the most: Detroit, Toledo, Los Angeles and Cleveland.

In general, immigrants from around the world who graduated from international medical schools constitute 25% of all US medical practitioners and 51% of medical scientists.

Recall that the new decree provides for the 90-day ban on travel to the US by citizens of 6 countries - Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. As for the admission of Syrian refugees, for them the ban is reduced to 120 days.

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