Government must not replicate ‘inhumane’ Greek camps in Britain, doctors warn
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MINISTERS have been warned against plans to build Greek-style refugee reception centres in Britain after a shocking report laid bare the human cost of the policy.
A year after Greece’s first “closed-controlled access centre” opened in Samos, Doctors without Borders (MSF) warned that every asylum-seeker held there is “suffering from psychological distress.”
The Zervou centre, which began housing refugees in September last year, had received a visit from former home secretary Priti Patel the previous July, raising fears that she planned to create similar structures in this country.
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