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Interim Federal Healthcare Program: Medical Students

Hamiltonians For Migrant And Refugee Health Dept: Put on by Hamiltonians for Migrant and Refugee Health, a group of healthcare professionals, medical students and community advocates, Storytelling Through Photographs depicts protests against recent changes to the Interim Federal Healthcare Program, which provides medical coverage for refugees and refugee claimants, according to CBC. The event will be a document of the advocacy work that has gone around this, said Erica Roebellen, a McMaster medical student and a member of the group and health, art and activism will all intersect in a new photo exhibition going on display at Christ Church Cathedral on Friday. Consisting of about 30 selections, the exhibit will provide a chronology of the legislation and the ensuing responses from the medical community. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.