MCALLEN – Medical experts in Hidalgo County are learning some residents are too scared to call for help, according to a new study.

Hidalgo County EMS conducted 600 interviews with individual people for the study.

They found people living in the U.S. illegally are more likely to refrain from calling 9-1-1 in a life or death situation.

The outreach director at La Union del Pueblo Entero, or LUPE, says the EMS’s findings only confirm what they have already known.

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