Reynosa, Mexico
September 2020: The MSF nursing team discuss a day’s work during a meeting at the COVID-19 treatment centre in Reynosa, one of two established by MSF in university basketball gymnasiums in Tamaulipas state.
Between May and September, the centre supported the local health system during a surge of COVID-19 cases and provided care for patients with both mild symptoms and more severe symptoms requiring concentrated oxygen. Staff also provided an isolation area for patients who could not isolate at home. Across the two centres, MSF treated 194 patients over the three and a half months, providing them with mental health care, social support and health education as well as medical treatment.