Interim Federal Health Program: Fundamental Human Rights

Canadian Association Of Refugee Lawyers Dept: Two advocacy groups Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and three patients say the cuts are unconstitutional and violate refugees fundamental human rights, according to Montreal Gazette. Ottawa s changes to the Interim Federal Health Program, which provides temporary costs of medical coverage to refugee claimants and others not eligible for provincial coverage, saw cuts of a variety of health-care services including pharmaceutical, vision and dental care and oTTAWA Doctors, patients and refugee lawyers are teaming up to legally challenge the Conservative government s recent cuts to refugee health care. The lawsuit will be filed in Federal Court on Monday morning and announced in more detail at a press conference in Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.