We are a group of people in Moria Camp in Lesvos who are organizing us to face the Corona Crisis. Generally at Moria, medical care is totally insufficient.
We tell people "keep a safe distance, wash your hands frequently, use disinfectant," but these things are not available in the Moria camp. This wasn’t even close to what I was expecting in Europe: I thought I’d be able to build a future.”Moria camp is full of stories like these. There, he has been supporting a local initiative called "Stand By Me Lesvos“.
The obligation to act is the same as it would be for everyone else who is threatened by this virus .Our main demand to the European Union is very clear: You must start now to evacuate these people from Moria.
One of the main concerns for MSF over the past year is how the lack of hygiene in the camp is contributing to ongoing health conditions. Most medical organisations are overwhelmed and access to healthcare for asylum seekers and refugees in Greece remains challenging. That is just something we have to assume and live with as a risk.Florian Westphal is the chairman of the German branch of Doctors Without Borders (MSF)That's always a possibility. Wave of anti-migrant violence has left refugees without food and medical care – and more vulnerable to disease than ever beforeNews of a confirmed case of Covid-19 on Lesbos has sparked fears of the impact of an outbreak at the overcrowded Moria refugee camp, where refugees live in dire conditions with appalling hygiene and little medical care.
She tries to cook for herself as much as possible because otherwise she find it hard to breastfeed. The leaders of Germany, Turkey, Britain and France held a video call to try to stop a new EU migration crisis. DW spoke with MSF's Florian Westphal.Greek officials are shutting camps for displaced people nationwide to visitors for two weeks in an effort to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. With almost half the camp’s population aged under 18 and many families living without tents or any form of shelter, even a short closure of basic services leaves many vulnerable people in danger.On Monday when the Guardian visited some NGOs had only just returned after days of closures, with other services still suspended.Sherzad, 30, who preferred to use only her first name, cradled her 22-day-old baby son in a hut at the top of a hill in the olive grove next to the camp. Up to 160 people on average are having to use one toilet.
That's the only solution and the only way to handle the risk.Many people there are very vulnerable anyway. “Last week when lots of the services were closed I couldn’t get nappies and I wanted to try and get some medicine but everything was closed and there wasn’t a lot of food,” she said. These people are in extreme need: They are human beings. We know that one local Greek woman has tested positive. We have no idea for the time being how that could be resolved.We have heard that they do. This is a camp that was designed for 3,000 people.
So it is difficult to predict. So it is more than six times over capacity, and many people are living very cramped together. Protecting yourself against the corona virus is almost impossible in these conditions.The people of Lesbos are just as entitled to our care, health care and our help as anyone is in Germany, anyone walking down a Berlin street. At the time of publication the Guardian had not had a response from the Greek migration ministry regarding this.Tensions on the island remain and the humanitarian community continues to be a target, now with the added concern that fears about Covid-19 will add to distrust and anger at the refugee and NGO community. And we've certainly started talking with them about that. Terkelsen said MSF keep seeing the same issues: “It’s scabies and lice, things like that, which are because of the bad sanitary conditions.”Things are getting worse, she said: “This is my second time with MSF on Lesbos and I’ve been really impacted this time by the situation for unaccompanied minors. An Interview with Thomas Osten-Sacken, managing director at Wadi, about the situation in Moria, Lesvos By Daniel Benyamin, 21.06.2020 Since the beginning of March, Thomas has been on the Greek island of Lesvos, in the refugee camp Moria.
You can find more information in our data protection declaration.The aid agency Doctors Without Borders is extremely concerned about the threat that the new coronavirus presents to the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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