The camp’s lockdown has meant fewer people have been able to attend MSF’s mental health clinic in Mytilene.“From five to 10 appointments a day, we are now down to two to three a week in the torture clinic in town,” Scaccabarozzi said. “This is also the case for the local population.” Such cases often involve a wait of two to three months in the camp before a transfer can be arranged, he said.“We are confronted with patients from Moria daily who have sicknesses like tuberculosis or HIV.

The changes, which mean cash assistance and accommodation support end a month after refugee status is granted, affect around 11,000 refugees …
“We have nothing and nowhere to go,” she said.Kelly Moraiti, a nurse at the MSF daycare centre in Athens, said evictions put patients’ health at risk, particularly those living with diseases such as diabetes. At night the medical staff work with a phone translation app to communicate with the patients, which can be disastrous in an emergency situation.”For Giovanna Scaccabarozzi, a doctor with MSF on Lesbos, Asmaan’s case is typical of a system where refugees and asylum seekers find it increasingly difficult to access proper healthcare, often despite being in desperate need.“Even survivors of torture and sexual violence are now left to themselves with no one to talk to and with no possibility to escape the highly re-traumatising space of Moria,” she said. Patients on island camps face long wait for specialist help and mental health services, while in Athens others are left destituteIn a fresh blow to refugees and migrants experiencing dire conditions in From the island of Lesbos to the Greek capital of Athens, asylum seekers and recognised refugees, some with serious medical conditions, are unable to access healthcare or see a doctor as treatments are disrupted by new regulations.Asmaan* from Afghanistan is 10. Greece to replace island refugee camps with 'detention centres' Government announces plans to relocate 20,000 people from islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos by early 2020 A refugee camp … She had been asked to leave repeatedly. No. Sharif said staff wanted to send her daughter to the mainland for treatment. On top of it, we face tremendous translation difficulties. They need to have access to a proper diet and a space to store medications, which should not be exposed to the sun; to be homeless with these conditions is extremely dangerous.”MSF urgently called on the Greek government and the EU to help house refugees sleeping rough in Athens and to halt evictions of vulnerable people. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. “She was vomiting, shivering through the nights and became apathetic,” said her mother Sharif*. The International Rescue Committee ensures these refugees understand their rights and provides them with job training, and psychosocial support so that they can rebuild their lives. “Someone who is facing a lifelong disease should have uninterrupted permanent access to treatment. The influx began increasing again from the second half of 2017, when the government began taking over full responsibility for Greece’s refugee response. Thousands of refugees are now on the border of Greece. The Greek island of Lesvos is a holding station for refugees from the Middle East and Africa … Greece currently hosts approximately 50,000 refugees, most of whom will remain in the country. The changes come with winter approaching and hundreds of families sleeping in tents outside official facilities on the five islands.Asylum seekers will not be allowed to move freely in and out of the camps, said officials, but will instead be locked up until they are either granted refugee status and relocated to the mainland or rejected and sent back to Turkey.The government has vowed to relocate 20,000 asylum-seekers to camps on the mainland by early 2020.Stefanis said the operations of NGO groups that assist migrants would be subject to new criteria.“Only those (NGOs) that meet the requirements will stay and continue to operate in the country,” said Stefanis.Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek prime minister, this week accused the EU of treating countries on the bloc’s external frontiers as convenient places to park migrants.“It cannot go on like this,” Mitsotakis told the German newspaper Handelsblatt.“Europe regards arrival countries such as Greece as a convenient parking spot for refugees and migrants. Is that European solidarity?