Anonymous to the doctor
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If Undocumented immigrants are ill, they can go to Germany is not just a doctor. Threatening them with deportation. But Berlin wants to facilitate migrants' access to medical treatment immediately.
Fatima Addo from West Africa has been living without papers in Germany. Your real name not known. She is afraid discovered and being deported. "It's very, very difficult to cope without papers. And if you are sick, there is no way to go to a doctor," she says.
far can people like Fatima Addo can not simply use if they are pregnant, have a lung inflammation and joint problems. To get to and undocumented migrants and health treatment paid by the welfare office. But the Social Services must inform the Immigration Office. Then the patient threatened with deportation.
The Berlin state secretary for health, Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff checks, currently the possibility of an anonymous health certificate for acute medical emergencies. Fatima would Addo, when she is sick, get a medical card with a number. In the hospital they would then not call her name. And the hospital treatment costs would get reimbursed by the social security office.
In other European countries this is far from normal. So there in Italy and Spain for some time, a similar model that works well, says Burkhard Bartholome the Berlin office of medical aid to refugees. He hopes that the anonymous medical card will be introduced soon in Berlin. Then the model could also be in other states are acceptable.
Glossary
anonymously - without mentioning a name
migrants in that / which - someone who has emigrated from one country to another
without papers - here without official permission to live in a country
someone threatens something - someone be afraid of something have
deportation, which - to cope sent back by someone in his home country
- in this case have a little no problems
inflammation - a condition in which the affected area often is hot and hurts
joint that - the point at which two bones are connected to, for example, knee, shoulder
itself - actually
Social Welfare Office, the - the authority which responsible for people without money
's immigration office, the - the office that is responsible for residence permits for example
Secretary of State, who - in this case a politician who supported a minister in a particular area
medical card that - an illusion that the patient entitled to medical treatment
acute - much
emergency that - in this case report a dangerous illness or injury
something - the cost for something to take
introduce something - in this case a new rule formally validate
is somewhat acceptable - something is accepted
questions about the text
first foreigners without papers can not go to the doctor ...
a) because in Germany threatens to sick people, the deportation.
b) because they have to hide from the immigration office.
c) because they have no money to pay for treatment.
second ... People without papers can go to the doctor without fear.
a) In some European countries
b) In many German states
c) In Berlin
3. "Someone will be deported" means that ...
a) he was returned against his will to his home country.
b) the social services treatment the doctor does not pay.
c) he has to wait very long at the doctor.
4th Burkhard Bartholome wants ... sick of the anonymous note.
a) the importation
b) the supply
c) the introduction
5th The hospital sends the medical certificate to the Social Services, ...
a) even though the money was reimbursed for treatment. to get
b) reimbursement of the costs of treatment.
c) after the costs are reimbursed.
work order
you know the names of some diseases in German? Make a list and describe how to recognize these diseases. Then enter in the group the results together and sort them. What diseases are dangerous and which not?
author: Jana Pareigis / Raphael houses
Editor: Barbara Syring
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