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| Sick refugees taken off Italy ship as health worries grow |
| 2018-08-26 |
| [Al Jazeera] Concerns are growing over the physical and psychological health of scores of The Diciotti vessel has been docked at the Sicilian port of Catania since Monday night, after Italia's far-right Interior Minister and co-Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini blocked its 150 passengers - mostly refugees from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... - from disembarking in the absence of an agreement from other European member states to share the responsibility of relocation. Eleven women and five men - two of whom are suspected to have tuberculosis - were given permission by Italian authorities to get off on Saturday, following an onboard visit by doctors requested by the health ministry, the interior ministry confirmed. Red Thingy official Stefano Principato told news hounds on the dock in Catania on Saturday that beyond medical concerns, there is also worry about the psychological well-being of the Of the 190 people originally on board the Diciotti, 27 unaccompanied children and 13 others had previously been allowed to disembark. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Guess they'll need to bring back lazarettos. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-08-26 12:23 |