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24 June 2019
CAJ News Agency (Johannesburg)
Libya: Migrants Succumb to TB in Libya Jails
By Ahmed Zayed
Tripoli ? AT least 22 migrants and refugees have died of tuberculosis (TB) in Libya's dreaded detention centres.
Doctors reported that this is a sign of the deteriorating standards at the Zintan and Gharyan detention centres, located south of the capital Tripoli in the Nafusa Mountains.
Hundreds of foreign nationals, mostly those stranded in Libya after failed trips to Europe, are detained there.
Some have been kept for months while others have been there for years.
M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF)/ Doctors Without Borders reported that in Zintan, some 700 detainees were held in overcrowded cells with no functioning toilets, shower and only sporadic access to water, which was not suitable for drinking.
"Health-wise, it was a disaster," said Julien Raickman, MSF head of mission in Libya.
Raickman said a TB outbreak had likely been raging for months in the detention centre...
24 June 2019
CAJ News Agency (Johannesburg)
Libya: Migrants Succumb to TB in Libya Jails
By Ahmed Zayed
Tripoli ? AT least 22 migrants and refugees have died of tuberculosis (TB) in Libya's dreaded detention centres.
Doctors reported that this is a sign of the deteriorating standards at the Zintan and Gharyan detention centres, located south of the capital Tripoli in the Nafusa Mountains.
Hundreds of foreign nationals, mostly those stranded in Libya after failed trips to Europe, are detained there.
Some have been kept for months while others have been there for years.
M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF)/ Doctors Without Borders reported that in Zintan, some 700 detainees were held in overcrowded cells with no functioning toilets, shower and only sporadic access to water, which was not suitable for drinking.
"Health-wise, it was a disaster," said Julien Raickman, MSF head of mission in Libya.
Raickman said a TB outbreak had likely been raging for months in the detention centre...