WORCESTER, Mass. - Families taking the long journey from their home countries to the United States seeking asylum are flocking to Massachusetts in droves, but is struggling to keep up with the demand for housing, food, clothing and education.

Central Massachusetts is among many parts of the state seeing an influx in migrants. The Family Health Center of Worcester is seeing a large population of pregnant patients in need of obstetrics care. Their patient load has grown by more than 30%.

“In terms of our perinatal patients, there's a huge need," said Dr. Stephany Giraldo Eierle, a fellow at the Family Health Center of Worcester. "We've seen like about a third increase in perinatal patients and a lot of those patients are coming as refugees or immigrants. They need culturally appropriate care, which can sometimes be hard to come by, but also have a lot of other needs.”

A big issue these patients are facing is homelessness, so the center tries to help connect patients with basic needs. But the temporary shelter capacity has reached its limit and the wait list growing, and it's getting harder by the day.

Community services are doing their best to accommodate those who walk through their door by catering to those patient’s specific needs and making sure that they are cared for.

“We recently saw a lot of an influx in Haitian Creole speaking immigrants, and so, we have now someone who speaks Haitian Creole on the OB team who can help,” Giraldo Eierle said.

A 400-person temporary shelter set up in Boston last week is already nearing capacity. Gov. Maura Healey has been pleading with the federal government for financial help.