NETHERLANDS - MdM Netherlands Conference-debate: ‘Duty to give healthcare under pressure!’
On 15 October 2009, MDM Netherlands organized a conference-debate on barriers in the access to healthcare for undocumented migrants: ‘Duty to give healthcare under pressure!’
Presentations were made on migrations at world and European level, on the legal perspective of duty to give healthcare and on the results of the European Observatory on access to health care. The debate was based on two cases which were presented by migrants themselves and on leading questions. Conclusions have been formulated around the need for healthcare professionals as well as patients about the recent financial regulations and the right they have to health care. Besides, care providers have been addressed to use more actively their responsibility to observe and also report if any barriers stand in the way for undocumented to receive the medically necessary healthcare they are entitled to.
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