7K … The translators – non-medical but now accustomed to this type of emergency – grab oxygen masks, gauze and cannula dressings, and squeeze in fluid like members of a trained trauma team. On the Greek island of Lesbos is the Moria refugee camp, constructed for 3,100 people but now with a population of more than 20,000 men, women and children. This was my third time there – and my most shocking. Rose is breastfeeding her baby, born last August while living in the chaos of the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. On the last night I was working we saw four life-threatening stabbings, including a stabbed neck and an open chest. As the ambulance arrives, we beg them to come down to the clinic gates to minimise the time transferring the boys in the freezing cold. The fires started hours after reports that 35 people had tested positive for Covid-19 at the camp. his is not abnormal. Despite seeing multiple patients suffering with panic attacks every day, the sound of the screams still shocks and chills me as I wonder: what have you seen? It has become a place of violence, deprivation, suffering and despair. Lewis says, “We’ve in some ways been waiting for something like this to happen, because of the heightened tensions among people there on Lesbos. © 2021 BBC. We make up the clinic team, and respond together as the crowds enter. We decide to decompress that side of his chest with a cut to his chest wall. We are a team from across the world – when I was on Lesbos there was a mix of Dutch, French, English, American and Spanish doctors, nurses and support crew. “ The EU and Greek response following the Moria fire has been pitiful. I have no solution, but I want to give a voice to these silenced people, and hope there is a willing audience prepared to begin to listen. In Moria, this is not the case. It has become a place of violence, deprivation, suffering and despair. Last modified on Thu 20 Feb 2020 10.33 GMT. This kind of thing reaches through the camp, adding to the feeling of resignation and hopelessness. The Moria camp was initially designed to house 3000 migrants. Sanitary conditions are grim. Their resilience and care for their fellow refugees nearly chokes me. On a car park outside a supermarket on Thursday, hundreds of migrants, including families with small children, waited for bottled water and food to be distributed. A boy plays with a scooter in front of rubbish bags in area outside camp Moria. At the scene. Version française plus bas/French version below. We have boxes with the essentials for consultations – oxygen saturation probes, blood pressure cuffs, thermometers and ophthalmoscopes. India ignores Covid surge to hold IPL cricket tournament, Covid-19: The disinformation tactics used by China. Considering the outright violation of human rights and the grave medical and psychiatric needs we face every day, it is clear that Moria camp is in a state of emergency. Moria is the largest of five centres on Greece’s Aegean islands and has become a symbol of Europe’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers and migrants on boats from nearby Turkey. The names of patients to be seen are written on a whiteboard in order of priority and we call them inside one by one. They are understaffed. Without BRF, I know many would have died every day in the three short weeks I was there: adults – both men and women – from violent stabbings that are stabilised by medics trained briefly in “stop the bleed”; children from a new outbreak of meningitis whose fevers spike at night in their tents; vulnerable women in labour; four-day-old babies sleeping in freezing tents. One person carried a large piece of cardboard emblazoned with the message: "We don't want food, we want freedom." It has not come. Hell on earth — Greece's Moria refugee camp and its tortured history Life threatening. Thousands of migrants and refugees left without shelter after a fire on the Greek island of Lesbos have been protesting against the construction of a replacement camp. Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said the fires "began with the asylum seekers because of the quarantine imposed". Myanmar ambassador to UK 'locked out' of embassy. It is… Patients can only enter with their police papers, known as their ausweis, which contain their photograph, name and number. BRF doctors from the Netherlands and Belgium – Mirjam Wubs, Lisanne Schreuder Goedheijt with translator Nourullah Ishaqzi, Lucie Blondé, and Mariëtte de Reeper – work in the “green” area. ', Med's deadly migrant crisis: In maps and charts, Protecting yourself from coronavirus in a migrant camp. Over 12,000 men, women and children ran in panic out of containers and tents and into adjoining olive groves and fields as the fire destroyed most of the overcrowded, squalid camp. But the new camp is rightly dubbed ‘Moria 2.0’. "We don't want another camp, and we will oppose any construction work," local leader Vangelis Violatzis was quoted as saying. There, he has been supporting a local initiative called "Stand By Me Lesvos“. He wrote: “ In all of my years of medical practice, I have never witnessed such overwhelming numbers of people suffering from serious mental health conditions, as I am witnessing now amongst … On Friday, migrants and refugees approached police barriers blocking the road out of Moria camp, holding signs calling for "freedom" and opposing the construction of a new camp. We start oxygen from our transported cylinders on the children who are not responding, wrap them in emergency blankets, and call the ambulance, while checking over the others. Child migrants sleep in pens at Lesbos port, Tear gas fired as migrants hold protest on Lesbos, Greek islanders strike over crowded migrant camps. Women and minors largely choose to wear nappies to avoid having to leave their tents after the sun goes down. Meanwhile the Moria camp has all the needed ingredients for an outbreak: feeble hygiene, people with poor nutrition and compromised immune systems shoehorned into tight spaces, and a virus that behaves uncontrollably making its way around the world. He was seen to be shouting and screaming and then collapsed, breathing very heavily and not waking up. “The situation in Moria cannot continue because it is a matter of public health, humanity and national security at the same time,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement. We work together with our translators (refugees living in the camp themselves, volunteering daily in return for bus tickets, phone credit, education and dinner as they are not able to stand in the food queue while working with us) from Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Somalia and the Congo. Women and minors largely choose to wear nappies to avoid having to leave their tents after the sun goes down. Photograph: Tessa Kraan/BRF, A doctor’s story: inside the ‘living hell’ of Moria refugee camp, n the Greek island of Lesbos is the Moria refugee camp, constructed for 3,100 people but now with a population of more than 20,000 men, women and children. This is daily. Images of Moria refugee camp taken in July 2017 and January 2020 illustrate the population explosion. By Bethany Bell, BBC News, Lesbos. Moria refugee camp is at breaking point; the situation is about to implode. I have not done a special job here. People keep arriving and we continue to try to keep them safe in whatever capacity we can. But officials have also increased security on the island. The fire at Moria was "a sharp reminder to all of us for what we need to change in Europe", the interior minister said. Talks are ongoing with other states to take part, Mr Seehofer said. The mother is crying and the father looks ashen-faced as he explains through the Farsi translator that they are worried as the child won’t drink and looks tired. Here are their stories. Moria refugee camp is at breaking point; the situation is about to implode. After a week in which riot squads clashed with crowds of migrants, one medic gives a harrowing account of life volunteering in Greece’s infamous holding facility, Children in the olive grove area. Life has become a ''living hell'' for refugees and asylum-seekers at the Moria reception centre on the Greek island of Lesvos, a space designed for 2,200 people but now hosting place hosting over 18,000. One of his lungs is filling up with air and blood where he has been stabbed. The charity sent staff to Lesbos, together with the Greek Council of Refugees, to assess the situation at the provisional site after a fire gutted the island’s Moria camp in September. In the acute phase we provide emergency care for these patients and their friends, relatives and tent-mates, who listen to them cry at night, and drag them to the clinic in blankets when they have attacks. The clinic has two rooms, split into four consultation areas. We know he will not be safe back in Afghanistan. Other countries expected to take in children include Switzerland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Luxembourg and Portugal, according to German reports. Read about our approach to external linking. More than 4 years ago Pope Francis visited Moria camp. Two naval vessels have also been provided. We keep going. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said France and Germany would each accept between 100 and 150 of the children. I want to tell you about one day in the life of the little portable cabin clinic where I worked. A mother comes in with her four-year-old child who has a very high fever, and who hasn’t been eating, drinking or responding to her properly for hours. I can’t comprehend it. He has also said that the Commission's proposals for a new pact on migration and asylum, due to be presented on 30 September, will "put an end to this unacceptable situation". As more and more countries are going into quarantine to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, there is one place on the planet where the situation could well become even more catastrophic than in the rest of the world: the Moria refugees camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, off the Turkish coast. 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I go back to debrief the team; the translators are already cleaning the blood from the floor, beds and walls. On any given day, we can see 180 to 250 patients during clinic hours. Families have been sleeping in fields and on roads after fleeing the blaze on Wednesday, as authorities struggle to find accommodation for them. These thousands of vulnerable people spill out into the surrounding olive groves in makeshift tents, which are elevated on wooden palettes to try to prevent the cold from the freezing ground seeping into their tired, aching bodies. Eight women live in one of 18 small basic rooms under a large tent, nicknamed "the women's camp." Eight of the 35 who tested positive for Covid-19 are since believed to have been found and isolated. Rather than relocating asylum seekers to proper shelters where they would be safe, the EU and Greece have opted for another dismal camp at the external borders, trapping people in a spiral of destitution and misery. The next day we had a 16-year-old boy, again from the supposedly protected sections, fall through the back doors of the clinic with a knife still in his back. Navalny 'losing sensation in legs and hands', Jabs 'breaking link' between UK cases and deaths. There are four beds against the walls that can be pulled out in case of emergencies to allow access around the entire patient. We have still not been able to contact him. Guardians work hard to keep the most vulnerable safe, but with boredom and violence still prevalent, and staff often not speaking the same language as the refugees, monitoring and care is stretched, and problems continue to spiral. 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She has waited patiently in line in the cold. An entire family is dragged in, two of the four children unconscious and the father appearing confused, shouting about “fire”. As far as I’m aware, all of these patients are still alive. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I call all five doctors and the emergency nurse to the cabin and we split into teams, with two translators at each bedside. They agree and also agree to take both boys at the same time – a rare occurrence, but last week a young man died from a stab wound and we work together in the dark shadow of this memory. The Netherlands has already pledged to accept 50 and Finland will take 11. Meanwhile, some migrants told BBC Persian that the fire had broken out after scuffles between migrants and Greek forces at the camp. Singing and banging plastic bottles, they march up and down a stretch of coastal road, calling for the right to leave Lesbos. There has been no reliable electricity in the camp for more than two-and-a-half months now (with 20,000 people trying to use a grid made for 3,000, it constantly trips and cannot be relied upon for any period of time), and the threat of violence and sexual violence is incredibly high.

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