Moreover 400 refugees transferred From the registration center in Ter Apel, Netherlands, to other parts of the Netherlands tonight, after the Health Inspectorate’s alarm went off. for the sanitary and hygienic situation in the premiseswhere hundreds of people have been sleeping outside for weeks.
The Central Agency for Receiving Asylum Seekers (COA) said on Saturday that hundreds of asylum seekers crowded on the cordon of the Ter Apel registration center They went by bus to other places in UtrechtStadskanaal, Zuidbroek, Almere and Groningen.
This sudden decision came after weeks of complaints about the overcrowding, sleeping and living conditions of refugees in Ter Apel. After the Health and Youth Care Audit (IGJ) demanded “immediate intervention” amid warnings about the consequences of the total lack of hygiene in the venue.
Refugees live in “terrible conditions” and fear “lack of drinking water, clean toilets”, according to investigators who visited the area around the center this Friday, to see how some 700 people crowd the center’s garden and parking lot. showers, toilets and accommodation” is a risk for the spread of infectious diseases.
Then, called for immediate improvements in facilitiesbecause “adequate water, sanitation and shelter are very important”.
It is not clear how long the asylum seekers will be able to stay in these new destinations, as there are very temporary accommodation (some just overnight) agreed with some municipalities due to pressure from health inspectors.
Also, according to the COA, some asylum seekers they didn’t want to leave tonight for fear of missing their turn in the refugee registration procedureWhat to do at Ter Apel on arrival in the Netherlands as the first official step of their asylum process in the country.
According to the Dutch agency ANP, up to 80 people chose to continue sleeping on the cordon last night.
The Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières (for the first time in its history sent a team to the Netherlands) are bidding. primary health care for refugees and referral of chronic and more serious cases to hospitals.
During a visit to the reception center in Ter Apel, Efe was able to confirm the inhumanity that NGOs have denounced for weeks: feces swim in the bathrooms set up in the square, volunteers heal wounds and infections that have lasted for weeks. they can, the chronically ill are hospitalized and others are living under tents.
Some of the refugees were injuredvisible skin problems due to travel injuries and poor hygiene.
Source: Informacion
