Secret clinic for undocumented to open in Helsinki(Finland)

[madkins]

*"Nobody knows what kinds of diseases these people have, said Tuomola.


http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Se...foreigners+to+open+in+Helsinki+/1135265132266


Helsingin Sanomat International Edition

Secret medical clinic for undocumented foreigners to open in Helsinki

April 4, 2011

A clinic for undocumented foreigners is starting operations in an undisclosed location in Helsinki later in the week.

Undocumented foreigners are not entitled to public health care in Finland because they lack a personal ID number, and many cannot afford to buy medicines.

The founder of the clinic, Pekka Tuomola, says that the clinic will operate on one evening each week for a few hours at a time.

“On the first evening there will be eight people working there”, he says.
According to Tuomola, about 20 doctors and health care professionals have volunteered to take part in the activities.

The doctors at the clinic will be able to treat infections and other basic illnesses.

“There won’t be much equipment beyond a stethoscope and a blood pressure monitor. Basic medicines will also be acquired.”

Tuomola says that the doctors face a challenging task if any of the patients have conditions requiring longer-term treatment.

“Life-threatening conditions are treated in Finland. Nobody asks for papers at that point”, Tuomola says.

“But cases requiring lengthier testing are a big problem. We are now collecting experiences about how these kinds of things are dealt with. Nobody knows what kinds of diseases these people have.”

It is also not known who will use the services of the clinic.

Police estimate that there are about 1,000 undocumented people in Finland, but the clinic is also available to Roma from Romania, who are citizens of the European Union.

The location of the clinic will remain a secret. Tuomola expects that word of the clinic will reach the intended patients in some way or other.

“The information will be passed on through various organisations and by word of mouth. We are not advertising this in any way.”

The location is known to the police, who have promised not to interfere in its activities.

Skara Brae,

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[madkins]

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) estimates that there could
be thousands of such people in Finland. Patients come from countries
such as Cameroon, Nigeria, and Liberia, and Thailand.



http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Se...undocumented+aliens+in+Helsinki/1135266386461

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Th...an+women+married+to+Finnish+men/1135266388725

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/A+sample+of+Halla-aho’s+writing+in+2001/1135266386012


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Helsingin Sanomat International Edition

Secret clinic cares for undocumented aliens in Helsinki

By Jussi Sippola

It’s all about the papers.

Those who have none must come here.

Lack of papers brought this young couple, a Finnish man and a Thai woman. The woman is five months pregnant, but she cannot see a regular doctor. They are here at the secret clinic for the undocumented, because nobody asks for papers here.

The woman has a temporary residence permit which does not entitle her to public health care.

“This feels so unfair”, the young man says.

The clinic, located in Helsinki, is open once a week for a couple of hours at a time. Helsingin Sanomat visited the clinic this past week.

The first patients walking into the waiting room are an old Bulgarian man and a young girl. A medical student asks through an interpreter what the problem is.

The man limps and the girl is not feeling well.

Soon the doorbell rings again, and more Bulgarian Roma walk in. As citizens of an EU country they are not actually undocumented but they nevertheless are in the target group of the clinic.

“From the point of view of health care the Roma are in the same position as the undocumented”, says the founder of the clinic, Pekka Tuomola, a substance abuse doctor at the Deaconess institute.

Tuomola set up the clandestine clinic so that those who are in the country illegally might get medical treatment. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) estimates that there could be thousands of such people in Finland.

“Nobody else helps these people. They could go to a private doctor but few can afford it”, Tuomola says.

The clinic has operated for six weeks and it has treated about 40 patients. Roma from Bulgaria and Romania have accounted for less than half.

Although they are in Finland legally, they do not have a European health care card, which means that they can be admitted to a public hospital in Finland only in a dire emergency.

Patients have also come from countries ranging from Cameroon, Nigeria, and Liberia, to Poland, Russia, and Thailand.

Helping them are dozens of volunteer doctors, nurses, and lawyers.

The equipment is fairly primitive: there are two rooms and a bed, a blood pressure gauge, a stethoscope, and basic medicines.

“The patients are treated with this equipment a little bit like in the developing countries”, says Dr. Sohvi Ihalainen.

So far, the volunteers have managed to treat patients relatively well, but at times they have just had to raise their hands in frustration.

“One child born in Finland has not received vaccines. We have not been able to help, as we do not have any”, Pekka Tuomola says.

They have asked for vaccines and medicines from pharmaceutical companies, but no donations have been forthcoming. Tuomola hopes that the state might take over the clinic at some point.

“There are many undocumented people in Finland, and there would seem to be a need for this clinic”, he says.

The Finnish man who brought his Thai girlfriend for treatment hopes that the state might share in the costs of the clinic.

“I cannot understand that this is the only place where we can get treatment”, the man says.

The woman would be entitled to public health care in Finland if they were married. The couple can marry once the woman gets a certificate of no impediment from her home village, but that will take some time.

But their child will be cared for like any Finnish child. That does not hinge on the mother’s papers.

Skara Brae

*HS