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Refugee health care’s coming back. Will doctors get the memo?

February 19, 2016February 21, 2016amp Leave a comment

February 19, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

The six-year-old girl with an agonizing stomachache was turned away from the Montreal walk-in clinic: They only treat refugees who pay a fee first, they said.

The girl’s mom couldn’t afford the fee. So they left.

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Refugee health care will be fully restored April 1, feds say

February 18, 2016February 21, 2016amp Leave a comment

February 18, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

All refugees and refugee claimants will get extended health care as of April 1 — six months after the Liberals came to office and five months after they made a special provision allowing Syrian refugees to access care.

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Some Canadian refugees are more equal than others

January 19, 2016May 30, 2016amp Leave a comment

January 19, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Some refugees and asylum-seekers come to Canada saddled with debt and without full access to health care — and some don’t.

Which one you are depends on where you’re from and when you got here.

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Ontario prepares for refugee influx: timing and magnitude unknown

November 15, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 15, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

They don’t know how many people are coming, when they’ll arrive, what services they’ll need or who will pay for them. But Ontario’s preparing to welcome an unprecedented influx of Syrian refugees.

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Canada’s scrambling to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees but restoring health care could take ‘months’

November 12, 2015December 13, 2015amp Leave a comment

November 12, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Thursday morning Meb Rashid saw a woman severely traumatized after years of an abusive relationship.

Before that, an HIV/AIDS patient with dangerously low CD4 count; a pregnant victim of sexual violence.

They all needed treatment. None had coverage.

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