On 20 September, a second urgent letter was sent to Minister De Jonge and State Secretary Broekers-Knol calling on the government to \u2018Evacuate displaced persons from the Moria camp on Lesbos immediately\u2019. The WHIG is one of the organisations supporting this campaign by the NSGH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first open letter was a call from paediatricians and youth health doctors to improve the safety and health of children in Greek refugee camps. This open letter is more broadly worded and constitutes a call from healthcare professionals to put an end to human rights violations in the refugee camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read here<\/a> the urgent letter<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read here<\/a> the press release<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read here<\/a> the article in Medisch Contact<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read here<\/a> the urgent letter <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read here<\/a> the press release<\/p>\n\n\n\n What care workers and doctors had long feared became a reality this week: the first case of COVID-19 in the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on Lesbos. Patrick Lodiers discusses the consequences of this and how we should deal with it on De Nieuws BV with Steven van de Vijver, a doctor who has worked in the Moria camp, and with Ingeborg Beugel, our correspondent in Greece. Listen here<\/a> the entire excerpt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also #SOSMoria<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Europe must act now if it is to prevent a potential medical disaster in the overcrowded Greek refugee camps, argues Dr Jamilah Sherally, a specialist in global health and tropical medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos is notoriously overcrowded. It is not a question of \u2018if\u2019 but \u2018when\u2019 the coronavirus will strike. In order to draw attention to a possible outbreak of COVID-19 in the camp and the resulting humanitarian crisis, Sherally has joined the SOSMoria campaign, an emergency appeal signed by more than 40,000 doctors and members of the public. Calling on the EU to bring the refugees in Moria to safety to prevent a medical disaster on European soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n View here<\/a> her lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDoctors: \u2018Moria is a tragedy that should never have happened\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Urgent letter from paediatricians and youth health doctors: \u201cThe safety and health of children in Greek refugee camps must be improved.\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
AIGT\u2019s Steven van de Vijver on Radio 1 \u2013 De Nieuws BV<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lecture by Jamilah Sherally \u2013 How to prevent a medical disaster?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Moria: 20,000 refugees waiting for a disaster to strike<\/h3>\n\n\n\n