National Day of Action – Stop Cuts to Refugee Healthcare - June 17th

National Day of Action – Stop Cuts to Refugee Healthcare

The Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) encourages social workers and all Canadians to support the National Day of Action to Stop Cuts to Refugee Health on June 17, 2013 organized by Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care (CDRC). Events are being organized in 19 communities across Canada. 

Visit http://www.doctorsforrefugeecare.ca to locate the National Day of Action event nearest to you.

For its part CASW will be standing in solidarity with other leading national health associations on Parliament Hill to discuss consequences of federal cuts to refugee health services as the CDRC has documented many cases of people being denied care.

 

Background

It has been over one year since CASW joined other national heath organizations asking for the withdrawal of the federal government changes to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP). As national health organizations predicted, since the IFHP changes have been implemented, many patients have been denied care; especially refugees needing long-term care such as pregnant women fleeing sexual violence and people with chronic conditions.