The Danish Medical Association, together with the Red Cross in Denmark and the Danish Refugee Council, have joined forces to set up a clinic available for undocumented migrants in Copenhagen. The president of the Danish Medical Association writes about the clinic in the Copenhagen Post.

There are people in Denmark who don’t get the healthcare they need. Pregnant women don’t get the checks they need. Others live too long with afflictions that are easily treatable, but left without a doctor’s care for too long can develop into serious conditions.

Doctors every day find themselves in the difficult situation of whether to treat a person who needs more help than they are entitled to. The Hippocratic Oath obliges us to treat patients equally. But the law, on the other hand, discriminates.

This is why the Danish Medical Association (DMA), together with the Red Cross in Denmark and the Danish Refugee Council, have joined forces to set up a clinic in Copenhagen. The new clinic will be available for undocumented migrants – those who do not have proof that they are in the country legally.

Under current laws, this group only has the right to emergency medical treatment. Experience shows us though that many of them need more help than they are entitled to. Some need to keep their diabetes in check, others treatment for tuberculosis. The clinic, housed in a simple basement and run by volunteers, will offer them free, anonymous medical assistance.

Read the rest of the article by Dr Mads Koch Hansen, president of the Danish Medical Association in the Copenhagen Post.

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