The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) will unveil key data and findings on the sensitive issue of irregular migrants and access to healthcare. A panel of high level speakers will reveal and discuss FRA’s Report “The Cost of Exclusion from Healthcare: the Case of Irregular Migrants” in an exclusive launch session.
The right to health is a basic social right. However, its understanding and application differs across the European Union (EU) Member States, which results in different healthcare services being offered to migrants in an irregular situation.
Does restricting migrants’ access to emergency healthcare actually save costs? The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights’ Report “The Cost of Exclusion from Healthcare: the Case of Irregular Migrants” focuses on this question.
The report’s findings will be unveiled in an exclusive panel session in the framework of European Public Health Alliance 6th Annual Conference in September.
3 September 2015 (16.00-17.30)
Residence Palace, 155 Rue de la Loi, Brussels
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Preliminary programme
16.00- 16.20 Ludovica Banfi (FRA) Presentation of the report findings
16.20 – 16.50 Panel discussion of the findings
Speakers:
– Isabel de La Mata, DG Sante
– Roumyana Petrova -Benedict, International Organisation for Migration
– Michel Roland, Medecins du Monde
– Lilana Keith, PICUM
Moderator: Peter Wiessner, EPHA Board Member and EATG Policy Working Group co-chair
16.50 – 17.30 Question and Answers session