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Jun 14, 2021 SAN LUIS VALLEY, Colo. A woman with pregnancy complications needed permission from her boss to visit a doctor. Community health volunteers were turned away from delivering food and covid information to worker housing. A farmworker had a serious allergic reaction but was afraid to seek treatment. To Nicole Civita, policy director with Colorado advocacy group Project Protect Food Systems Workers, such stories encapsulate an entrenched power dynamic that covid-19 has brought into focus: Farmworkers are “essential but treated as expendable,” including when it comes to accessing health care. Her organization is one of many that supported Colorado legislation dubbed the Farmworker Bill of Rights. Among its provisions is a requirement that the more than 3,000 Colorado farmworkers who live in employer-provided housing be able to visit, or be visited by, medical professionals and community health workers. Employers must also provide transportation to medical ....
A woman with pregnancy complications needed permission from her boss to visit a doctor. Community health volunteers were turned away from delivering food and covid information to worker housing. A farmworker had a serious allergic reaction but was afraid to seek treatment. ....
Photo courtesy Zoila Gomez Promotor Manuel Montano on the left, and Neighborhood organizer Olga Montano, on the right deliver a farm worker a personal hygiene kit and COVID-19 information at Blanco Potato in the San Luis Valley on Feb. 1, 2021. For Lucia Miranda in Center, it started with what felt like a cold. She was caring for her father, who has cancer, and didn t want to get her dad sick. She decided to go get tested for the coronavirus, just to be sure. She remembers the exact date, October 27, when the Rio Grande Public Health Department called to tell her she was positive for COVID-19. ....