
Greece
Since the EU-Turkey deal in March 2016, migrants and refugees previously in transit through the Greek islands have been trapped there for an indeterminate time in overcrowded, unsafe and unhygienic conditions, without access to basic services, adequate shelter or information on their legal status.
We provide medical and mental healthcare to migrants on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos. Our activities include vaccinating migrant children against common childhood diseases, providing sexual and reproductive healthcare, treating chronic diseases and providing care for sexual violence.
Our teams in Lesbos have reported overwhelming numbers of people suffering from serious mental health conditions and we have made repeated calls for vulnerable people to be evacuated and policies of containment to be replaced by sustainable, humane solutions.
MSF teams in Greece are currently responding to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in Athens.

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Voices from the field
I am overwhelmed by the severity of each referral that arrives in my inbox…Dr Liz Clark, working in Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos
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“It is difficult to believe this is Europe”

Moria is in a state of emergency

Self-harm and attempted suicides increasing for child refugees in Lesbos

Trapped in Moria

Confinement, violence and chaos: How a European refugee camp is traumatising people on Lesbos

Overcrowded, dangerous and insufficient access to healthcare in Moria

"Stolen hope" – Asylum seekers still stranded in Greece

Two years on, deal continues to fail thousands of people seeking asylum

MSF activity update – March 2018
Contact us

15 Xenias St.
115 27 Athens
Greece