Evros In May 2018, in response to a sharp increase in arrivals to Evros, on the border between Greece and Turkey, MSF began a four-month intervention to cover the lack of medical care. For more than eight months prior to this, there was no doctor in the area and especially in the Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) in Fylakio. In the end, the intervention ran for six months. The intervention was designed to provide primary healthcare, sexual and reproductive health services, travel medicine and health promotion services. Key challenges • Referrals to the public hospital have been a challenge as they had to be coordinated with the police • There is a lack of medical confidentiality within the RIC • Shortages in essential materials have hindered the treatment of scabies cases Primary healthcare MSF in the RIC of Fylakio has offered primary healthcare services. A proactive identification and prioritization of the patients who want to use MSF services was implemented in RIC. The team was visiting in the morning all the living sections and was gathering all requests to visit our clinic, while informing people about our services. A first prioritization of patients was made by the MD in order to have the more urgent consultations first. 20 © Anna Pantelia
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