Spain’s Health Minister Says Migrants ‘Do Not Bring Diseases’, Denies Ceuta’s Healthcare Collapse
- Spain's Health Minister Mónica García denies that Ceuta's healthcare system has collapsed following a large influx of migrants and attributes claims of disease spread to xenophobic messages.
- Local healthcare workers report that the healthcare system is overwhelmed with cases including injuries, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and scabies, and mental health crises after the migrant arrival, contradicting the minister's statements.
- Minister García acknowledged exceptional humanitarian crisis conditions and confirmed tuberculosis cases among migrants but emphasized that migrants do not bring diseases and that there is no healthcare collapse.
- Authorities in both Spain and Morocco are reinforcing border controls after tens of thousands of migrants entered Ceuta, amid ongoing tensions about the crisis response.
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Health Minister Mónica García was met with boos and shouts of "resign" during her visit to Ceuta on Sunday, more than two weeks after the mass influx of migrants at the end of July. Upon her arrival and departure from the Government Delegation building, several citizens and healthcare professionals protested the government's handling of the crisis and demanded a stronger response from the Executive branch. Read more
Government Denies Health Collapse and Calls for Spaces in Ceuta to Care for Migrants · Global Voices
The president of the autonomous city says he has no resources and demands that migrants be returned
It has arrived late. Sixteen days late, to be exact, regarding the time when about 80,000 people crossed the Tarajal spur and overflowed a city of just over 83,000 inhabitants. It has come between cries of “dimission” and “murder”, with skin tanned already for a week of public appearances in which it has invariably repeated that the massive arrival “has not caused any problems” for Ceuti health and that at no time has there been “collapse”. Toda…
Minister of Health defends that the figures do not support the reports of collapse and assures that 5,800 migrants have been attended in the last 15 days
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