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Europe accused of using healthcare denial as systematic tool to deter migrants, report finds

Saturday, 6 June 2026, 07:02 · 1 min read

A new report by No Name Kitchen (NNK), a grassroots organisation supporting migrants travelling toward the EU, accuses European countries of systematically denying medical care to people on the move as a deliberate method of deterrence rather than as an administrative oversight. Drawing on 336 field testimonies collected between January 2022 and December 2025, the report documents deaths attributed to medical neglect, including that of a 41-year-old man named Mukter who died at Bosnia's Lipa reception centre after guards repeatedly ignored residents' pleas for an ambulance following a violent pushback from Croatia, and three Egyptian minors who died of hypothermia after crossing from Turkey into Bulgaria in late 2024. NNK warns that a newly agreed EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, provisionally struck on 1 June 2026, risks entrenching these conditions unless enforceable health protections are added, and is calling for independent criminal investigations into the deaths documented in the report.

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Balkan InsightEurope Using ‘Healthcare Denial’ to Stop Migrants Reaching West, Report Claims ↗︎
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