Nearly $9 million approved for migrant shelter

Shortly after being praised by UN officials for its approach to migrants stranded in Darién. Panama’s government  through a Cabinet Council “exceptional procedure”, has approved  the construction of a migration shelter in the Metetí, district of the province

The Official Gazette, published, the direct contractual agreement between the Ministry of Public Security and the Constructora Urbana, SA (CUSA), for the design, and construction of the shelter, is for an amount of $8 954.830.

The shelter will have administrative offices for 50 officials with dormitory spaces to house 400 migrants, control booth, clinic, perimeter fence, bathrooms, kitchen, laundry, and recreational area.

It will also have monitoring towers, an electric generator, a drinking water treatment plant, and a wastewater treatment plant.

Recently, about 716 irregular migrants entered Panama to the communities of Puerto Obaldía and La Miel, in the Guna Yala region reports TVN Noticias