Supported by a team of medical and non-medical volunteers, The Wound Clinic provides onsite urgent care and harm reduction services across Tijuana Mexico, to people living in exclusion from public services and denied the opportunity to live free in our city.
We guide our mobile clinic based on the principles of social justice, dignity, compassion, freedom of choice and autonomy.
Providing basic health care services, the mobile Wound Clinic has grown into a philosophy where regardless of a person's legal status, economic condition, political, religious or sexual orientation, cultural background or gender, equal access to care and protection of patient’s dignity are always a priority in our practice.
As we mainly serve people living in homelessness, injection drugs users, migrants and women living in extreme poverty we seek to develop a sense of belonging and community where social justice, peace, dignity and compassion set the start line for local NGOs and programs to restore the damage caused by structural violence, the force of gentrification ,the chronic abuse of public force upon this community and the culture of shame endorsed by our society.
Our efforts have also extended to the willingness willingness of medical and non-medical students to advocate for the introduction of harm reduction platforms in local college programs as result of their volunteering experiences in the clinic, also, our work has helped create a continued medical education program provided by senior medical doctors to students offering a humane approach to medicine for younger generations.
Harm reduction education
On site naloxone use training
Needle distribution
HIV counseling and testing
Continued medical education
On site art \workshop
Food and hydration distribution
Community advocacy
Please use the following email in order to register as a clinic volunteer:
casadelcenclinca@gmail.com
This is important for the clinic organizers to anticipate needs and coordinate transportation.
The clinic is typically held the first Saturday of the month.
If you want to carpool from LA, indicate this in the email. Please coordinate with the LA volunteers in order to arrange carpool.
-Please coordinate with the SD volunteers in order to travel with a group.
-Option to either drive or walk across the border:
- Once you have crossed the border
- PLEASE be sure to coordinate with Dr. Patty on how you will arrive so that we can anticipate the need for space in cars traveling to the Clinic sites from Casa del Centro.