BRF doctors from the Netherlands and Belgium – Mirjam Wubs, Lisanne Schreuder Goedheijt with translator Nourullah Ishaqzi, Lucie Blondé, and Mariëtte de Reeper – work in the “green” area. Most of them have made a treacherous journey to come to this unsafe place; 40% of them are children. Those people in the camps really want freedom and they … Refugees and migrants in the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos March 2020. As far as I’m aware, all of these patients are still alive. We are a team from across the world – when I was on Lesbos there was a mix of Dutch, French, English, American and Spanish doctors, nurses and support crew. They come with infected wounds that need cleaning and bandaging; they have minimal access to clean water out in the olive grove areas. She has waited patiently in line in the cold. He is a young man in his teens, unconscious, dragged in a dark grey blanket by four people from the surrounding tents. This time two young men from the sections for unaccompanied minors are dragged in between friends, gasping and covered in blood. With only two ambulances on the island despite a rapid 25% increase in the population, the service is not fit for purpose, and we are increasingly using taxis to transport patients to hospital. I am a doctor from London and I have just spent three weeks working for the Boat Refugee Foundation (BRF). There, he has been supporting a local initiative called "Stand By Me Lesvos“. In Moria, this is not the case. It has not come. On the Greek island of Lesbos is the Moria refugee camp, constructed for 3,100 people but now with a population of more than 20,000 men, women and children. Refugees speak of dreadful reality inside Lesvos' Moria camp. As I go to inflate the blood pressure cuff, he opens his eyes and screams – a long, sustained scream, followed by extreme hyperventilation and rigidity in his arms. “Covid-19 has reached almost every corner of this planet, so I can’t imagine why it shouldn’t hit Moria,” said Dr. van de Vijver. BRF is the only emergency medical provider for the entire camp between the evening hours of four and 11. Almost 13,000 people had been living in squalor in the overcrowded Moria camp and are desperate to leave the island. The sections for unaccompanied minors and vulnerable women consist of fenced areas with sleeping cabins inside, locked in a secure area near to the police and new arrivals areas. They are understaffed. On the last night I was working we saw four life-threatening stabbings, including a stabbed neck and an open chest. I have no solution, but I want to give a voice to these silenced people, and hope there is a willing audience prepared to begin to listen. We make up the clinic team, and respond together as the crowds enter. © 2021 BBC. Considering the outright violation of human rights and the grave medical and psychiatric needs we face every day, it is clear that Moria camp is in a state of emergency. The Moria camp was initially designed to house 3000 migrants. The next day we had a 16-year-old boy, again from the supposedly protected sections, fall through the back doors of the clinic with a knife still in his back. The Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has burned to the ground. "The shameful situation in the camp and the fire disaster are the direct result of a failed European refugee policy - now the EU must finally help the people affected," the open letter reads. By Bethany Bell, BBC News, Lesbos. As we wait for the ambulance to arrive, the other one starts to gargle and choke. Italy and Greece have accused wealthier northern countries of failing to do more, while a number of central and eastern nations are openly resistant to the idea of taking in a quota of migrants. Here are their stories. People keep arriving and we continue to try to keep them safe in whatever capacity we can. Hell on earth — Greece's Moria refugee camp and its tortured history Life threatening. Photograph: Tessa Kraan/BRF, A doctor’s story: inside the ‘living hell’ of Moria refugee camp, n the Greek island of Lesbos is the Moria refugee camp, constructed for 3,100 people but now with a population of more than 20,000 men, women and children. “ The EU and Greek response following the Moria fire has been pitiful. One of his lungs is filling up with air and blood where he has been stabbed. Moria is within a former military base surrounded by olive groves. New footage from Lesvos emergency site and Moria camp. Any chronic problems are advised to come back to doctors working in the daytime: this clinic is for acute care only, for emergencies only. He has also said that the Commission's proposals for a new pact on migration and asylum, due to be presented on 30 September, will "put an end to this unacceptable situation". Read about our approach to external linking. How do you weigh up the risks of the AZ vaccine? Doctor Annie Chapman at work in the ‘yellow’ area of the clinic. 0:41. We are fortunate to have a psychiatric nurse in our team, and once any more sinister pathology is excluded, we move the man to a back room to rest and be reviewed by her, to plan onward referral and care. This is a classic picture of a panic attack associated with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and a common presentation to the clinic. This once again brought to the forefront of people’s minds, the desperate situation of many people fleeing their native countries and seeking asylum abroad. Thousands of migrants and refugees left without shelter after a fire on the Greek island of Lesbos have been protesting against the construction of a replacement camp. Some 20 firefighters battled the blaze at the Moria camp - designed for fewer than 3,000 people - as migrants, many suffering from smoke exposure, fled. He was seen to be shouting and screaming and then collapsed, breathing very heavily and not waking up. We have only two oxygen tanks so rotate them in response to clinical need. Apparently they went to a neighbour’s tent where a fire was lit for warmth after sundown, and have been exposed to carbon monoxide for a sustained period of time. Unless there is a life-threatening emergency, they will wait until the day clinic opens at nine. I call all five doctors and the emergency nurse to the cabin and we split into teams, with two translators at each bedside. One stabbing like this in London would receive emergency trauma care from a highly trained team, probably in a major trauma centre. Some of those infected with the virus had reportedly refused to move into isolation with their families. To get to the cabin, she has had to walk through the camp on the side of a steep hill, weaving between UNHCR and makeshift tents, past the falafel store, the Wave of Hope for the Future school with its new library, past the barbers and people doing their washing, past the rubbish that hasn’t been cleared for a month, past the gang of wild dogs barking and running after her. People from 70 countries had been sheltered there, most from Afghanistan. The Moria camp has a capacity of 3,000 but is now overcrowded with over 20,000 people living there. He looks at the floor, apologises for attending, but asks for help. We take the boys out in emergency blankets, with fluids and lines in place, on stretchers, in front of the patients waiting to be seen in the cold, gravel-floored cage that is the waiting room. Simply horrible. People from 70 countries had been sheltered there, most from Afghanistan. Because there is no electricity in the camp, the darkness outside is engulfing. On the last night I was working we saw four life-threatening stabbings, including a stabbed neck and an open chest. There is also strong resistance from locals for a new camp to house … We assessed and stabilised them all and got them to hospital. I have not done a special job here. Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said the fires "began with the asylum seekers because of the quarantine imposed". Fires broke out in more than three places overnight on Tuesday, according to local fire chief Konstantinos Theofilopoulos. The implosion will probably cause a tiny ripple of outward explosion, and then be forgotten. ', Med's deadly migrant crisis: In maps and charts, Protecting yourself from coronavirus in a migrant camp. They are triaged at the door by one medic alongside a translator in Farsi and Arabic. We keep going. He wrote: “ In all of my years of medical practice, I have never witnessed such overwhelming numbers of people suffering from serious mental health conditions, as I am witnessing now amongst … The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I am the narrator of the stories of the people still there; this is not about me. The mother is crying and the father looks ashen-faced as he explains through the Farsi translator that they are worried as the child won’t drink and looks tired. He has heard that another child from a nearby tent is now in hospital in Athens with a brain infection. On Friday, Germany announced that 10 European countries had agreed to take 400 unaccompanied minors who had been living in Moria. Myanmar ambassador to UK 'locked out' of embassy. It works for a few minutes, then fills with blood again. It has become a place of violence, deprivation, suffering and despair. This is daily. I continue, with the help of my translator, to see patients in the “yellow” queue, mostly children with fevers, adults with abdominal pain, pregnant women, minors with scabies. The Blue Star Chios ferry, which has capacity to house 1,000 people, has docked at the Lesbos port of Sigri. Meanwhile, some migrants told BBC Persian that the fire had broken out after scuffles between migrants and Greek forces at the camp. Kyaw Zwar Minn spends the night in his car after saying the military attaché "occupied" the embassy. VideoCovid-19: The disinformation tactics used by China, Call My Agent star joins plea to reopen French theatres, 'I can't change my gender unless I'm sterilised' Video'I can't change my gender unless I'm sterilised', A shrinking river sparks a fight for water access, âPlease donât lend Kenya more moneyâ. “The situation in Moria cannot continue because it is a matter of public health, humanity and national security at the same time,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement. UNHCR has extensive video coverage of the situation on Lesvos available at Refugees Media, including these recent videos. Authorities placed the facility under quarantine last week after a Somali migrant was confirmed to have contracted coronavirus. At the scene. The names of patients to be seen are written on a whiteboard in order of priority and we call them inside one by one. At the end of our clinic time, the responsibility for the medical care of patients in the camp is down to a lone “army doctor”, who cannot be accessed by patients unless the police deem them to have a serious enough medical problem. Moria was originally designed to hold up to 2,800 people. Now a thunderstorm with very heavy winds and rain. The tension is released, for now. The Moria camp is a 10-minute drive from the port of Mitilini, the largest city on Lesbos. Images of Moria refugee camp taken in July 2017 and January 2020 illustrate the population explosion. In terms of mental health help for refugees, there are currently two referral pathways for the more severe end of the spectrum, but each takes time and depends on exposure to violence, sexual violence, and previous history. After visiting the area on Thursday, European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas announced that the devastated camp would be replaced by a modern facility at the same location. December 14. The fire at Moria was "a sharp reminder to all of us for what we need to change in Europe", the interior minister said.
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