Refugee children hit hardest by Greek-Macedonian border limbo

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Refugee children hit hardest by Greek-Macedonian border limbo

With some 12,000 migrants massed at the Greek-Macedonian border, the most vulnerable residents of the makeshift refugee camp there are suffering the most.

Living in filth and exposed to the elements, with food and water in short supply and sanitation facilities scarce, children are falling ill – among them Hani from Iraq.

For the last two days, she has been unable to keep anything down for more than ten minutes, whether it is water, tea or food, explains her father, Hazi Mohammad.

Volunteer doctors do their best but with at least 2,500 children thought to be at the Idomeni border camp, it is a difficult task.

“You can clearly see that the living conditions are affecting the health of the children,” said Cecile van de Konijnenburg, a doctor with the Medecins Sans Frontieres charity.

“When it is raining and they don’t have shelter, they will be cold. They will catch a cold, they will catch respiratory diseases.”

Amid warnings of a full-blown humanitarian crisis, things could get even worse.

“I think the biggest fear is that we cannot help everyone, that there will be someone left behind, that there is not enough time to treat everyone, there is not enough tents to shelter everyone, maybe there is not enough food to feed everyone,” Cecile van de Konijnenburg said.

As numbers at the border increase with new arrivals every day, Macedonian authorities continue to allow only a handful of refugees through.

Their lives already turned upside down, refugee children, like the stranded adults in the camp, still have no end to their suffering in sight.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-06

[Grouse]

No comment from TV rabid dogs I note....

[attento]

The German Chancellor very kindly invited them all to Germany, but ......... forgot to offer them transport to get there.

Does the Luftwaffe have any transport planes these days? Does the Deutsche Marine have any ships?

[baboon]

No comment from TV rabid dogs I note....

Weary from the constant bombardment of moral blackmail stories from the media?

[NeverSure]

So this isn't the fault of the idiots who brought them there, but rather is the fault of the countries who are overwhelmed with them. Send them to Merkel's house.

[connda]

Kids and women are a fraction of a percentage of the demographic of 15 to 45 year old males attempting to make it to the "gravy train" countries Germany, Sweden, and England.

But 15 to 17 year old Middle Eastern males are just 'children'. Yeah, sure.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/andrewalker/2016/01/13/swedish-police-covered-up-muslim-teen-sex-attacks-n2103855

http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.2476/exposed-code-291-the-swedish-police-code-to-keep-asylum-seekers-off-the-news.html

Political Correctness and the destitution of Swedish culture.

[DipStick]

Do I have sympathy, no way, their parents dragged them there so why should I be concerned or aggrieved ..

[Bluespunk]

Good to see the the voices of reason out in force here.

Refugees fleeing violence, persecution, death and civil war, what a bunch of bastards, eh?