Législation en Suède (système de santé national)

 

En Suède, les demandeurs d'asile et les sans-papiers font l'objet d'une claire discrimination par la législation relative à l'accès aux soins. Les uniques exceptions sont les enfants de demandeurs d'asile, les enfants demandeurs d'asile et les enfants de demandeurs d'asile déboutés.

 

Les demandeurs d'asile adultes n'ont accès qu'aux soins gratuits « qui ne peuvent être reportés », aux soins pré- et post-natals, au planning familial et à l'avortement. Ils doivent en outre verser une contribution pour certains de ces services

 

Étant « gömda » (cachés), les personnes sans autorisation de séjour sont également totalement invisibles dans la législation. Très récemment cependant, une loi a formellement fait mention des adultes demandeurs d'asile déboutés, les plaçant en dehors des catégories d'étrangers ayant accès au système de santé. Les personnes sans autorisation de séjour vivant en Suède, y compris les enfants (autres que les enfants de demandeurs d'asile déboutés), les femmes enceintes ou les personnes en situation d'urgence ou souffrant de maladies infectieuses très graves, n'ont donc pas accès aux soins de santé gratuits et éprouvent de grandes difficultés à prendre en charge leur coût financier.

 

Cependant, du fait qu'il n'est pas formellement interdit de dispenser des soins aux personnes sans papiers, certaines municipalités et hôpitaux publics ont commencé à adopter de timides initiatives permettant de donner accès à des soins de santé à ce groupe social extrêmement marginalisé.

 

Télécharger le rapport sur la législation suédoise relatif à l'accès aux soins des personnes sans autorisation de séjour et des demandeurs d'asile (en anglais).

 

Téléchargez la synthèse de l'étude sur la législation relative à l'accès aux soins des personnes sans autorisation de séjour et des demandeurs d'asile dans 16 pays (en suédois). Téléchargez la synthèse en français.

 

Informations sur les soins de santé

Sweden: Steps forward for the right to healthcare for undocumented migrants

 

Adult undocumented migrants in Sweden currently only have the opportunity to access emergency healthcare against full costs. The Swedish Government and the Green party have agreed upon expanding the legislation in the area of healthcare for undocumented migrants. The Government's announced ambition is that every person in Sweden shall have the same rights to healthcare. Parliament is to vote on a government proposal sometime early next year. It has not clearly been stated exactly yet which groups of undocumented migrants are to be included in the legislation, neither which types of healthcare are to be included.

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Sweden stops returning asylum seekers to Greece
05/11/2010

Sweden has ceased the transfer of asylum seekers to Greece, under the Dublin Regulation. Sweden follows here the example of Belgium, the UK, Iceland and Norway, which have already stopped sending asylum seekers to Greece and are examining the cases nationally. Furthermore, Austria's Constitutional Court ruled that vulnerable asylum seekers must not be sent back to Greece. The Netherlands is also suspending transfers for those who challenge the decision to be transferred to Greece under the Dublin Regulation.

Source: ECRE weekly bulletin, 5 November 2010

PhD-research on Illegal Aliens and Health Care Wants. The Cases of Sweden and the Netherlands
01/07/2010

This thesis, written by Baghir-Zada, Ramin, deals with illegal aliens in Sweden and the Netherlands with the main focus on health aspects. The three-fold aim is to investigate emergence of healthcare wants among illegal aliens, how they satisfy these wants (if they do so at all), and to explore the relation between their healthcare wants and health wants. Extensive fieldwork was conducted in both countries, including 42 interviews with illegal aliens in Sweden - and 38 in the Netherlands.

Sweden to build reception facilities for children returned to Afghanistan
01/03/2010

The Swedish government has announced plans to build specially-designed care centres in Afghanistan where unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Sweden can be returned to. The Swedish Migration Minister insisted that: "The most important thing is to enable the child to be reunited with his parents. If the only basis for a child to stay in Sweden is because they are alone, then it is better that they live in their home country while a search is conducted for their parents". Sweden is not the only country to announce such plans in response to an increase in the number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum. The Danish government has recently made public similar plans while the Netherlands has been funding reception facilities in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo for several years now.

 

Sources:

- ECRE Weekly Bulletin 26 March 2010

- The Local, 'Sweden plans Afghanistan orphanages'

Sweden's National Assembly of Health Professionals position on health care for undocumented migrants
01/05/2009

 

Sweden's National Assembly of Health Professionals, the Vårdförbundet, issued a message to the Swedish Minister of State stating its opposition to the government's policy of blocking access to health care for undocumented migrants.

The medical professionals state that denying healthcare contravenes the codes of professional ethics that apply to Sweden's midwives, biomedical scientists, radiographers and nurses who have pledged to continue complying with the principle of human dignity and providing healthcare on equal terms and on needs. These medical professionals have vowed that the right to health, as guaranteed in international conventions, will always take precedence over national laws and regulations that contravene the principles. The Vårdförbundet's National Assembly strongly urged all parties in the Swedish Parliament to assume their responsibility so that people without papers and those in hiding throughout Sweden may gain access to health care on the same terms as the rest of the population.

Source: www.vardforbundet.se

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