Clinics, pharmacies and specialists continue to deny services to refugees and refugee claimants, based on the assumption they’re not covered by IFHP Despite changes to Canada’s refugee health-care program in April 2016, many people still don’t have adequate access to care, according to a series of interviews we conducted recently with refugee service providers in
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Refugee Health Care
Response to Refugee Crisis Must Include Expanding Refugee Health Care
on October 2nd, 2015
Health care access for refugees must be a key element of Canada’s humanitarian response to the Syrian refugee crisis The haunting image of Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body lying face down on a Turkish beach have prompted many Canadians to ask what we can do as a country to help Syrian refugees. Unfortunately, our search for
