With scorching criticism against all those responsible for the “disgraceful” reception conditions greeting refugees on Greece’s islands, the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – Doctors Without Borders Joanne Liu told the ANA-MPA that she was “deeply outraged” by what she had seen while visiting Greece over the weekend.
“It’s a disgrace today for us to have to beg for a minimum of decency to be shown to the migrants and refugees arriving on the Greek islands….States cannot treat people who are fleeing from countries where there are wars like criminals and perceive them as threats,” she underlined.
Liu was in Greece last weekend in order to examine conditions for refugees at close hand, visiting the island of Lesbos and Eidomeni, as well as Victoria Square in Athens and the port of Piraeus. In an interview with the ANA-MPA shortly before her departure on Sunday, the Canadian paediatrician also said that European leaders had displayed a “tremendous lack of courage and humanity” at their recent EU summit.
“The EU, the Greek state and the UNHCR have to take their responsibilities and basic and humane reception needs to be organized now on all Greek islands,” she said.
The MSF provides medical care and reception support services to newly arrived refugees on the islands of Kos and Lesbos. They have recently launched a mobile medical unit for the Dodecanese island group and are providing medical care and aid supplies in Eidomeni.
(source: ana-mpa)
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