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PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release

August 19, 1999

Doubtful methods in the treatment of traumatised Bosnian refugees

Physician of Hesse act as an expert
by remote diagnosis referring only to the medical dossier
PRO ASYL: Serious violation of medical ethic
Safer residence status for traumatised people necessary

According to a decision of the Conference of the Ministers of the Interior traumatised refugees from Bosnia and Hercegowina are further excluded from deportation to their home country. The are entitled to temporary suspension of deportation. Bur the Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL is increasingly informed by indications, that the aliens offices are trying to circumvent the regulation and despite of it to get rid of a group mostly affected by the consequences of the Bosnian war. In a single case PRO ASYL has made an appeal to the Human Rights Commissioner of the General Medical Council…

In the context of a simultaneously submitted Petition of the family suddenly an expert opinion appeared of the senior physician in the Hesse Social and Medical Care Office. He has never seen the family, not to mention, that he didn’t make any check-up, but dares to make an expert opinion in the context of a remote diagnosis referring only to the medical dossier. In this he states, that the earlier certificates would only describe “ in a totally undramatic manner a psychological stress by the uprooting (loss of the home country) and the troubles of the war“…


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