Webinar: Refugee Health Cuts

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Impact on Universal Health Coverage

Hosted by CHNET

Dec. 12, 1-2 pm EST

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney instituted changes to the IFH program, July 1, 2012, which have resulted in:

- Eliminating coverage of medical services for refugee claimants from certain ‘safe’  countries and for refused refugee claimants, except for a very circumscribed list of contagious diseases (OMIT: diseases and other conditions) posing a public health or public safety risk

- Eliminating coverage for dental and eye care, midwifery, psychotherapy, long term care, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and prosthetics for all refugee claimants and privately sponsored refugees

 This fireside chat will consider:

- What effect have IFH changes had on refugees and refugee claimants needing health care?

- Are some people being refused health care to which they are actually entitled because of confusion about the new policy?

- What will happen when Citizenship and Immigration Canada introduces a planned designated countries of origin (DCO) list, drastically limiting IFH coverage for refugee claimants from these countries?

- What are the options for physicians, public health officials, and hospital administrators when faced with refugee claimants who have no medical coverage except for conditions  threatening public health or safety, not even for medical emergencies?

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