Sharif said staff wanted to send her daughter to the mainland for treatment. Greece reaches a breaking point 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. But the family cannot leave Lesbos until their asylum procedure is completed.“Only highly severe cases can be transferred to the mainland,” Babis Anitsakis, director of infectious diseases at the hospital in Mytilene, told the Guardian.

“I told them that my mother is terribly ill and showed them the medical files but they told us that they cannot do anything about it and that the decision had come from the ministry,” said Dalal.Fearing eviction, Dalal took her mother to Schisto refugee camp on the outskirts of Athens, where her brother was staying. The article is called "Sites of Refuge in a Historically Layered Landscape: Campsin Central Greece… The future for refugees in Greece is uncertain: many people have now been living there – on the streets, in the camps, in official and unofficial accommodation – for 3 years or more, in a state of complete limbo as they await the outcome of complicated legal processes which have been delayed time and time again.

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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. On top of it, we face tremendous translation difficulties.

As always, we’re ensuring we have the partners, skills, resources and local understanding to continue … “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. According to UNHCR, there are about 109,000 refugees and migrants in Greece. Germany Germany sees political controversy over rescuing refugees from Greece.

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. “Someone who is facing a lifelong disease should have uninterrupted permanent access to treatment. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Greece currently hosts approximately 50,000 refugees, most of whom will remain in the country. Government announces plans to relocate 20,000 people from islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos by early 2020People living in overcrowded camps on the islands of Lesbos, Chios and More than 27,000 people are currently housed on the three islands – which have a nominal capacity of just 4,500 – under conditions that have been repeatedly castigated by rights groups and the Council of “Decongesting the islands is a priority at this stage,” said Alkiviadis Stefanis, Greece’s deputy defence minister.Smaller camps on the islands of Kos and Leros will be remodelled along similar lines and enlarged, Stefanis added. MSF told the Guardian it is concerned that a number of patients face eviction and many refugees in Athens are sleeping on the streets as a result.Hadla, a 59-year-old from Aleppo who had had multiple heart attacks, died within days of leaving the apartment she shared with her daughter Dalal in Athens. “We really became alarmed when she was bleeding going to the toilet.” Diagnosed with an acute inflammation of her kidney, Asmaan was transferred to the island’s hospital. I will no longer accept this.”The International Organization for Migration last month said that Greece’s mainland camps are already nearly full or past capacity.