Canadian Doctors for Refugee Health Care

Restoration of refugee health cuts affirms Canadian values - http://www.lfpress.com//health-service-for-refugees-affirm

A great day for refugee health care: Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care cheers Liberal government announcement restoring the Interim Federal Health Program Toronto, February 18, 2016 Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care welcomes, with gratitude, the federal Liberal governments announcement today on the Interim Federal Health Program (IFH). Fully restoring the previous Conservative governments cuts called cruel and unusual by the Federal Court of Canada is excellent news... for these vulnerable families and their health care providers. This is a tremendous end to a four year grassroots campaign to restore fairness, compassion, and reason to refugee health policy in Canada. Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care wishes to thank the many physicians and health care workers, the 20 national health organizations that endorsed our campaign, the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, and all those Canadians who have offered support and provided countless hours of volunteer time to this issue. We wish also to thank the Liberal government, including Ministers McCallum and Philpott who have resolutely committed to restoring important health coverage for refugees, and all those Liberal and New Democratic Party MPs who advocated on this issue. It is a proud day to be Canadian. -30- For more information please contact: Christopher Holcroft Empower Consulting 416-996-0767 [email protected]

Full announcement: http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do

Victory. IFH restored. A great day for refugees. A great day for Canada.

Minister McCallum and Minister Philpott to hold media availability Ottawa, ON The Honourable John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, and the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Health, will be available to media in the foyer of the House of Commons for an announcement on the Interim Federal Health Program. Date: Thursday, February 18, 2016... Time: 12:30 p.m. (local time) Place: Foyer, House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario

Campaign update As previously noted, Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care is encouraged by the number of positive moves made by the federal government towards fully restoring the IFH program for refugees, including the decision to drop the appeal of the Federal Court of Canada ruling and the decision to provide medically necessary health care services to all categories of refugees from Syria. While we await the final steps in this process, we will maintain our campaign but will ...not be updating this website or our social media channels on a regular basis. We encourage you to direct questions on all aspects of refugee health care to the appropriate government, health institution, or settlement agency as appropriate. Thank you for your ongoing support. Dr. Philip Berger and Dr. Meb Rashid founding Co-Chairs, Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care

Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care cheers Liberal government announcement on refugee health care http://www.doctorsforrefugeecare.ca/

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do

http://globalnews.ca//federal-government-formally-drops-l/

Please see statement from Canadian Doctors for Medicare http://www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca//canadian-doctors

http://www.macleans.ca//when-it-comes-to-health-care-all-/

http://www.thestar.com//editorials/2015/11/09/reverse-thes

http://www.ctvnews.ca//conservative-refugee-health-care-cu

This is very encouraging - just a bit more work to do make it actually happen. http://www.cbc.ca//liberals-to-fully-restore-refugee-healt

Congratulations to John McCallum on his appointment as Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship. We look forward to working with him to restore the federal refugee health cuts.

http://www.ctvnews.ca//federal-appeal-on-refugee-health-ca

https://www.oba.org//Health-Care-for-Refugees-in-Canada-Re

Thank you to all our supporters for your efforts to restore the refugee health cuts. Congratulations to the Liberal Party on its election victory. We look forward to working with the new government to restore health care for refugees. Congratulations and thanks to all the candidates who sought public office.

Before we cheer on the Jays tonight, let's #cometogether to finally end the cuts to refugee health care.

Even the John Oliver show is onto this issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch

There's one thing left to do tomorrow. Vote to end the cuts to refugee health care once and for all.

4 days to go until we can end the cuts to refugee health care once and for all. Don't forget to vote! Voting information is available here: www.elections.ca

http://www.thelancet.com//PIIS0140-6736%2815%2900/fulltext

Advance polls are open - www.elections.ca. Don't wait to vote to end the cuts to refugee health care.

This is coverage from the JRAN - Darchei Noam debate last night: No Conservative candidate was in attendance. http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/Toronto/ID/2676813993/

Winnipeg coverage of Canadian Doctors for Refugee Health Care's National Week of Reckoning efforts! Great job, Mike Dillon!

Pier 21 demonstration gets a long story on CBC Radio's World at 6 tonight: http://podcast.cbc.ca/w6/worldatsix.mp3

A group of physicians and students visited the campaign office of Conservative Chris Alexander last night to try and speak about the impact of the cuts to refugee care. Surprisingly, his campaign office was closed. So we left some messages.

"WEEK OF RECKONING" DOWNLOADABLE PDFs! Contains: poster, press release, fact sheet and backgrounder.

"WEEK OF RECKONING" BACKGROUNDER.

"WEEK OF RECKONING" FACT SHEET.

"WEEK OF RECKONING" NATIONAL PRESS RELEASE.