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The EU wants Sweden to accept patients from Gaza

by AI | 23.May 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The EU Commission has sent a letter to the EU member states, including the Swedish Ministry of Social Affairs, with a request to receive seriously ill patients from Gaza.

Image from Rafah in February. Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP

The European Commission requests that Sweden receive and care for critically ill patients from Gaza.

The Center Party and the Left Party say yes — and want the government to handle the issue urgently.

“It is a humanitarian duty and something that the European Commission has requested. The entire healthcare system in Gaza has collapsed,” says the Center Party’s MEP Abir Al-Sahlani.

Last week, the European Commission sent a letter to EU member states, including the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, requesting to receive patients from Gaza. These could be chronically ill individuals in need of specialized care.

The two commissioners, Stella Kyriakides and Janez Lenarcic, write in the letter that the patients’ lives are in danger if they do not receive care.

“It is crucial that we swiftly evacuate these patients to hospitals outside Gaza.”

TT has sought Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M) for a comment.

(May 22)