Op-ed: Winter has arrived, thousands left at its mercy in Greece’s hot-spots
The capacity of the hotspots in #Lesvos, #Samos, #Chios is exceeded by somewhere between 100 and 250 per cent. People including vulnerable groups like children, sick people and pregnant women are accommodated in anything from small summer tents to makeshift shelters and damaged prefabricated houses, left at the mercy of the hard weather. Further the lack of hot water and limited sanitation makes hygiene a problem and with very few NGO’s still operating in the hotspots there is a shortage of even basic provisions like milk powder and diapers on top of the extreme conditions. Traumatized, mentally ill or disabled people do not have sufficient access to proper medical, psychological support and treatment and the with the combination of confinement, lack of information and perspective tensions are running high with incidents of violence and self-harm.
▻https://www.ecre.org/winter-has-arrived-thousands-left-at-its-mercy-in-greeces-hot-spots-op-ed-by-e
#îles #Grèce #asile #migrations #réfugiés #chiffres #statistiques #hiver #sur-population #hotspots #Lesbos #Leros #Kos