CreepyHands posted:
Hyperimiator, you're talking about newborn babies. This story is talking about children that were already in the family for years, then to be dumped on the street, disgusting.
from the op link...
"Athens' Ark of the World youth centre said four children, including a newborn baby, had been left on its doorstep in recent months.
One mother, it said, ran away after handing over her two-year-old daughter Natasha."
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Greek Maternity Hospitals About to Collapse Due to Immigrants’ Baby Boom Costs
Still wearing the brilliant gown of her native country, Sudan, Fatimah is patiently waiting outside the ER of Alexandra Hospital, the biggest and busiest Maternity & Gynecological hospital in Greece. She is about to give birth to her first child. She’s never been in Alexandra hospital before. She’s never had prenatal tests and she’s never met the gynecologist who is going to carry out the labor, or any gynecologist for that matter. Her situation is rather complicated. She was circumcised when she was seven. She might have Hepatitis or Aids but there’s no time for running tests. She’s having a baby.
She doesn’t speak a word of Greek and there’s no interpreter to give doctors the information they need to know. She has no “papers†or money. She’s an illegal, uninsured immigrant. She left her native Sudan two months ago-seven months pregnant- and traveled by bus, foot and boat through Egypt before puttering toward Crete with 15 others in a tiny motorboat. Fatimah is a typical example of an illegal immigrant that the Greek minister of Health Andreas Loverdos calls a “burden†for ESY, Greece’s National Health System.
Sitting at the crossroads of three continents, Greece has a long history of immigration but this time the situation is out of control. Tens of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East cross by boat to Greece’s Aegean islands each year. Humanitarian groups have condemned the situation as “shockingâ€. Such is the scale of the problem that the country has become Europe’s main gateway for illegal immigration, accounting for nearly half of those trying to reach the European Union. Greece’s constitution obliges the state to provide health care to citizens. By large, it does. Even those without resources of any kind can qualify for free health-care. But the system is a mess.
The War Zone of Alexandra Hospital ER
Should you visit the ER of Alexandra Hospital you will think you are in a conflict zone. Tens of expectant mothers from Asia and Africa lie on camp beds, endless queues of others in pain and doctors running around in panic trying to work with minimum medical supplies.
“The situation is out of control,†says a Gyn/Ob resident in Alexandra Hospital. “ Everyday we have tens of pregnant women from Asia and Africa with no medical records, no documents. They can’t even answer simple questions about their medical history because they don’t speak a word of Greek or English. They only come here when their waters brake. We don’t have time to run blood tests for Aids or Hepatitis or any tests for that matter. We go straight to the labor room without knowing what we’ll find.â€
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/12/27/greek-maternity-hospitals-about-to-collapse-due-to-immigrants-baby-boom-costs/
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