Belgium

Everyone in Belgium is entitled to health care. This includes undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, although in practice numerous administrative obstacles restrict their access to health services. Since 1987, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been assisting migrants by providing medical care and lobbying for government services to fulfil their responsibilities.

From January to April 2008, more than 600 consultations were carried out in Brussels. In April, MSF was able to hand over this project.

In Antwerp, MSF continues to provide medical and psychosocial consultations to people who cannot access them through normal channels. In 2008 more than 2,000 consultations were conducted, mostly for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. Rather than create a parallel system, MSF aims to direct people towards the national system responsible for providing the service. MSF will hand over its activities in Antwerp at the end of April 2009.

MSF has worked in Belgium since 1987.

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