Sunday, October 16, 2005
A doctor's testimony of African migrants' suffering in Morocco - BBC News
The typical patient is a person who has tried to jump the fence into Melilla, and is wounded and maybe traumatised.
For example, the last man I treated was 24 years old, from Mali (the majority of them come from Mali, Senegal and Cameroon, or Nigeria). This man had a very bad head wound, after a Moroccan soldier had hit him in the head.
It was an open wound, and when I arrived in the forest it was eight hours after he'd been injured, and he was bleeding badly. He lost consciousness, and was very traumatised.
...
The immigrants won't go to hospital because the police are around - they prefer to stay in the forest, hidden from the security services.
Occasionally we do take patients to hospital, and the staff there always take them in, because we only take the most serious cases. We've never been refused, but they do it reluctantly.
We have to supervise their treatment, because sometimes the hospital refuses to treat the patients in the same way as the Moroccan patients.
...
And those who arrive at the border are only 10% of those who set out. Many die on the way.
The typical patient is a person who has tried to jump the fence into Melilla, and is wounded and maybe traumatised.
For example, the last man I treated was 24 years old, from Mali (the majority of them come from Mali, Senegal and Cameroon, or Nigeria). This man had a very bad head wound, after a Moroccan soldier had hit him in the head.
It was an open wound, and when I arrived in the forest it was eight hours after he'd been injured, and he was bleeding badly. He lost consciousness, and was very traumatised.
...
The immigrants won't go to hospital because the police are around - they prefer to stay in the forest, hidden from the security services.
Occasionally we do take patients to hospital, and the staff there always take them in, because we only take the most serious cases. We've never been refused, but they do it reluctantly.
We have to supervise their treatment, because sometimes the hospital refuses to treat the patients in the same way as the Moroccan patients.
...
And those who arrive at the border are only 10% of those who set out. Many die on the way.
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