Turkey to Employ Syrian Health Workers to Treat Refugees
Turkey will start recruiting Syrian doctors and medical workers to work in healthcare centers that serve Syrian refugees, the Turkish Ministry of Health announced on Sunday.
“Syrian doctors and healthcare staff will be working in those [centers]. We gave them some training, and we are doing exams. We have seen that they have had good training in general,” Turkish health minister Recep Akdag said during a press conference in Istanbul.
The new system is under development, with the government working to upgrade the current 27 health centers for refugees in Turkey.
E.U. States ‘Failed’ to Take Refugees Rejected From Germany
E.U. member states have failed to absorb tens of thousands of refugees returned from Germany who were obliged to apply for asylum in the first E.U. state of arrival, according to the latest government figures.
Overall E.U. member states have only taken back 5,321 of the 72,321 asylum seekers that Germany tried to return to the first point of entry from the beginning of 2016 to March 2017.
The current Dublin Regulation mandates that asylum requests are processed in the first E.U. state of entry. Therefore asylum seekers cannot apply in a second country.
A total of 14,973 migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea, were granted asylum in Germany in May alone, bringing the number for this year so far to 77,148.
UNHCR Resettles Albino Refugees Under Threat in Malawi
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR has prioritized the resettlement of albino refugees in Malawi to North America since June 2016 due to recurring attacks against people with albinism this year.
Crimes committed against people with albinism are linked to local superstitions in Malawi and surrounding countries, whereby their body parts are believe to bring good luck and prosperity. Numerous attacks have been reported and at least 20 people have been killed since 2014.
“The situation created fear among persons with albinism, as they are regularly referred to as money or cash machines” Sebastian Herwig, the associate resettlement officer for the UNHCR in Malawi, told Voice of America.
A majority of the refugees with albinism hail from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Somalia.
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