European countries must stop rejecting migrants their fundamental right to healthcare, discusses a doctor in The BMJ today.
Europe is experiencing the greatest mass migration of people since the Second World War, in accordance to estimates from the Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Jonathan Clarke, a doctor and Kennedy Scholar at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, says that "many persons think that entire migrants to Europe have meaningful access to healthcare, but the truth is different."
Initially this year, Dr Clarke visited 6 clinics run by the charity Médecins du monde (MdM), also called as Doctors of the World, across Europe as part of his research project. The charity has been caring for Syrian migrants and refugees since the early days of the dispute in the Syria.
He claims two thirds of the 15,648 migrants attending clinics run by MdM throughout Europe previous year had no access to healthcare. And in the UK, four in five (1154 of 1395) migrants had been not able to access a GP.
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