“That is precisely what I pledged when I took the Hippocratic Oath.‘
In a powerful opinion piece in De Volkskrant newspaper, international health care physician Heleen Margriet Koudijs expresses her concerns about the recently adopted amendment to the new asylum law. According to this amendment, providing shelter or medical care to undocumented migrants could also become a criminal offence: “If a landlord is liable to prosecution for renting a room to an undocumented person, then admitting someone to hospital may also be a criminal offence.”
As a professional association for International Healthcare Doctors (AIGs), we stand for healthcare without discrimination. Heleen articulates very clearly how this bill violates fundamental human rights and the core of the medical profession: compassion and accessible healthcare for all.
Read the opinion piece: The new amendment to the asylum law goes against everything I stand for as a doctor | de Volkskrant
We remain committed to equal access to healthcare and to upholding our oath.
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