Recourse Grows Slim for Immigrants Who Fall Ill

By NINA BERNSTEIN of The New York Times (March 3, 2006)

In the last decade, more and more immigrants are delaying care or retreating to bootleg drugs and unlicensed practitioners.

When Ming Qiang Zhao felt ill last summer, he lay awake nights in the room he shared with other Chinese restaurant workers in Brooklyn. Though he had worked in New York for years, he had no doctor to call, no English to describe his growing uneasiness.

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