{"id":5176,"date":"2019-04-07T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2019-04-07T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:16:24","slug":"pm-07-04-2019-weltgesundheitstag-fluechtlinge-haben-nur-eine-drittklassige-gesundheitsversorgung-wo-ist-ist-universale-gesundheitsversorgung-fuer-jede_n-und-ueberall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/allgemein\/pm-07-04-2019-weltgesundheitstag-fluechtlinge-haben-nur-eine-drittklassige-gesundheitsversorgung-wo-ist-ist-universale-gesundheitsversorgung-fuer-jede_n-und-ueberall\/","title":{"rendered":"PM 07.04.2019 World Health Day: Refugees have a third class health coverage, where is universal health coverage for everyone, everywhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2019 World health day focuses on <\/strong>Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere<\/strong><\/em> but we are seeing how laws are racist and discriminating also on health issues, like \u201eAsylbewerberleistungsgesetz\u201c passed in 1993, which was established to discourage asylum seekers from coming to or staying in Germany. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFor over two years \u201cWomen in Exile\u201d has been working on a health\nproject regarding refugee women. The project was started because we\nrealised many women suffer from gynecological problems. Most of them\nhave no right to access an insurance coverage and they are offered\nwith a temporary cover which only helps by granting minor treatment. \nEven when going to gynecologists they don\u2019t know how to account for\nit financially, making the women go through a tough time with their\nbodies. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\nAccording to Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz<\/strong><\/em>\nonly the treatment of acute diseases or pain is covered, specialised\ntreatment is carried out only if the person goes through the\nbureaucratic process of moving from one official to the other trying\nto get consent. Going through this process does not mean they will\nget the specialised treatment and tends to make the women vulnerable\nas they fight for their right to stay and against the living\nconditions in the camps. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDuring our empowerment workshops, we got to know a lot of cases\nespecially from women who had cysts and were operated, but also women\nwith heavy bleedings, myomas which even after operations they keep on\nrecurring. We started accompanying some of the women for second\nopinions to organisations working on reproductive health.. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the empowerment given to refugee women includes a better knowledge of their bodies and illnesses associated with them. We have learned that cysts problems keep on reiterating, making some of the refugee women go through multiple operations, since they do not have information on alternative treatment. We have learnt the self-examination of the breast and talked about problems around the uterus and other diseases like PCO and endometriosis, which touched on the topic of reproduction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDuring the health workshops we provide trustful and useful\ninformation that will help the women to be aware of their health\nissues, question first medical opinions and know their rights\nregarding health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nTogether with gynecological related problems, we learnt that these\nare also symptoms connected to the psychological and traumatic\nconditions the women face on their way to Germany and the anxiety of\nhaving to live in the lagers with no perspectives. Like we discovered\nthat cysts often appear in times of stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So one can make the conclusion: \u201cthe lager, the system, the racism makes us sick!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press contact info AT women-in-exile.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Der Fokus des Weltgesundheitstag 2019 liegt auf “Universal Health Coverage”, einer fl\u00e4chendeckenden Gesundheitsversorgung. Aber wir von Women in Exile e.V. sehen, wie selbst die Gesetze bez\u00fcglich Gesundheit rassistisch und diskriminierend sind \u2013 wie z.B. das \u201eAsylbewerberleistungsgesetz\u201c, welches 1993 eingef\u00fchrt wurde, um Asylsuchende zu entmutigen in Deutschland zu bleiben bzw. Abschrecken soll \u00fcberhaupt erst herzukommen. Seit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-gesundheit","category-pm"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}