Refugee Health: Health Care Providers

health care providers: OTTAWA Public health and the public purse are in danger because of cuts to refugee health funding, doctors and refugee advocates said Monday as they protested the cuts across the country, according to The Chronicle Herald. But the changes have thrown the health care support system for refugees into chaos, creating uncertainty for health care providers and refugees alike, ad-vocates said and The federal government overhauled the health care coverage it provides to refugees and refugee claimants one year ago as part of a cost-cutting measure it also said was designed to make Canada less vulnerable to fake asylum claims by curbing access to free health care. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.