Access to Health Care for Refugees in New Delhi

Author(s)
Basavapatna, S.
Publication language
English
Date published
19 Mar 2009
Type
Articles
Keywords
Health, Forced displacement and migration, Urban
Countries
India

What should the standard of health care for refugees be in an urban area? How should the policy be framed and how should this policy be implemented? These are some of the question that this article seeks to answer, based on the experience of working with Burmese refugees in New Delhi. It is not an exhaustive study of the access to health care in a metropolitan city like Delhi but is based on some hands on experience of our attempt to facilitate health care services in case of serious illness.