Traduction de «medical assistance on duty » (Anglais → Français) :

Therefore, I believe that it is essential and a matter of duty for the European institutions to provide as much assistance as possible, at least in order to guarantee that the people who have lost everything have housing, medical assistance, food and basic social services.

Member States are obliged to ensure ‘emergency’ medical treatment during the reflection period and ‘necessary’ medical assistance after the issue of the residence permit.

However, we feel this most acutely in our own back yard. The lack of specialised medical assistance, the lack of clinical experience in particular specialities and of specific medical services leads people to seek medical help in other countries.

In the emergency measures provided for in Article 5, the proposal mentions the need for ‘medical, psychological or other assistance’ (Article 5(2)(c)). The wording ‘other assistance’ is very vague, and in our view it is just as important that asylum-seekers should be informed of their rights and obligations as that they should receive medical assistance.

12. Believes that a common minimum standard should provide for a degree of protection of procedural safeguards that adequately reflects the vulnerability of certain groups of persons who are at a particular disadvantage in terms of asserting their rights, owing for example to age, infirmity, physical or mental handicap or illiteracy, and that minors should at all events be included within these groups; considers attention should be drawn to their vulnerable situation by these persons themselves, law enforcement officials or the defence lawyer at the commencement of proceedings from the first time the defendant comes into contact with a law enforcement official, submitted to the judicial body for consideration and form the subject of monito ...[+++]ring within the criminal proceedings; considers that it should be the duty of all officials to draw attention to the vulnerability of such persons from the point of arrest and their initial questioning and that it should at any event automatically be taken into consideration as soon as it becomes apparent and, in particular, that appropriate medical assistance should be guaranteed for anyone who appears or declares themself to be in a precarious state of health and that specific safeguard instruments should be established for anyone appearing to be vulnerable owing to their mental or emotional state;

13. Believes that a minimum common standard should provide for a degree of protection of procedural safeguards that adequately reflects the vulnerability of certain groups of persons who are at a particular disadvantage in terms of asserting their rights, owing for example to age, infirmity, physical or mental handicap or illiteracy, and that minors should at all events be included within these groups; considers attention should be drawn to their vulnerable situation by these persons themselves, law enforcement officials or the defence lawyer at the commencement of proceedings from the first time the defendant comes into contact with a law enforcement official, submitted to the judicial body for consideration and form the subject of monito ...[+++]ring within the criminal proceedings; considers that it should be the duty of all officials to draw attention to the vulnerability of such persons from the point of arrest and their initial questioning and that it should at any event automatically be taken into consideration as soon as it becomes apparent and, in particular, that timely medical assistance should be guaranteed for anyone who appears or declares themself to be in a precarious state of health and that specific safeguard instruments should be established for anyone appearing to be vulnerable owing to their mental or emotional state;