EVENTS

MdM Netherlands Conference-debate

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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Conference on the Identification of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers

On Thursday 19 November 2009 the Odysseus Academic Network will hold a Conference on the Identification of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers in the Framework of the Reception Conditions Directive in Brussels. This conference aims at analysing the problem of the identification of “asylum seekers with special needs” like disabled or elderly people, victims of torture, violence or rape, persons with mental health problems, pregnant women, … The Odysseus Academic Network underlined in a study done in 2007 that two thirds of the Member States have no procedure to identify asylum seekers with special needs despite article 17 of the previous directive, this obviously depriving those persons of the special reception conditions that they should normally benefit from and leave their special needs unsatisfied.

Further information is available on the website of the Odysseus network.

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