Ebola medals handed back in protest at the hostile environment

via Mary at Asylum matters

“Today a group of medics awarded medals for their work fighting Ebola will be returning their medals in protest over the Government’s policy on NHS healthcare charging for some of the most vulnerable people in our society, including undocumented migrants and destitute asylum seekers.

You can read more here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/ebola-heroes-to-protest-over-migrants-being-denied-nhs-healthcare

And one of the doctors, Neal Russell, has written a brilliant opinion piece here:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/23/nhs-doctor-ebola-medal-migrant-patients

Here’s the latest Asylum Matters briefing on health care charging for migrant support groups:

https://cityofsanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Healthcare-Charging-Briefing-for-refugee-and-asylum-support-groups-FINAL.pdf

If you can, please help to share this action far and wide so that we can bring some much needed attention to this important issue.

The social media tags are as follows:

Primary # –  #medals4migranthealth  

Secondary # – #patientsnotpassports 

Others that can be used if room #HostileEnvironment  #NHS”