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Human rights experts explain that officials must find out first. AND – to ensure your normal medical care. At that time, the Migration Department had not yet granted any asylum applications. And some migrants hope to receive asylum because they are homosexual and oppressed in their own countries. The department promises to verify if they really have a non-traditional orientation.
While some asylum seekers living in Verebie wait in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine on Friday morning or have a leisurely breakfast, two women from this camp have been taken to Alytus Hospital for possible miscarriage or premature delivery.
“During the examination, a 36-week pregnant woman complained of pain in her lower abdomen, her back, that she could not sleep. As a result, an ambulance was called and brought in for a gynecological examination, ”says Jūratė Averaitytė, director of the Simnas Outpatient Clinic.
An asylum seeker, who had named herself at sixteen, also went to Alytus by ambulance.
“She complained that she was pregnant and started bleeding, she didn’t mention the term of the pregnancy, but they also took her for an exam,” says J. Averaitytė.
It is not yet clear whether the girl actually lost her baby, but Alytus’s doctors confirmed to TV3 that both asylum seekers were still in the hospital at night. According to unofficial knowledge, miscarriage ended at least one more birth of a migrant a good week ago.
“There were women’s health problems, maybe it’s a myth that turned into a ‘miscarriage’. I really don’t know about miscarriage,” said Deputy Home Affairs Minister Vitaly Dmitrijev.
How many pregnant women don’t even count
And it’s hard to tell when no one is interested. It turns out that officials don’t even count how many pregnant migrants crossed the border into Lithuania. No one knows if the aforementioned problems were caused by his own health problems, travel to Lithuania and stress, or if poor accommodation conditions in our country also contributed.
However, the Vice Minister of the Interior recognizes that schools or other facilities are not adequate to house pregnant women or other asylum seekers with health problems.
“I was right at the firewall and I saw people living alone in border jobs. This is not the right condition, but there is no other way out. I had to see the children sitting on the floor, I had to see that the children with disabilities received quick fixes. I really think we have to make those decisions, “says V. Dmitrijev.
The Interior Ministry is saying almost bluntly that migrants are primarily trying to find a roof over their heads, and health problems are a secondary concern. Human rights NGOs are surprised that the authorities have not even tried to count the most vulnerable arrivals during the two months of the migration crisis.
“People who have crossed the border, who belong to vulnerable groups, must be immediately aware of how many people there are. They have to identify themselves in the first chain and when they are transferred to temporary accommodation, that information must also be transmitted, ”says Jūratė Juškaitė, director of the Center for Human Rights.
Until now, nobody counts how many women we protect, how many children, how many men. At that time, a third of the 2,400 migrants crossing the Lithuanian border had already applied for asylum. However, the Migration Department has so far not complied with any request that most of the newcomers are motivated by a simple desire to live better. However, there are other arguments. Some migrants, like a boy from Cameroon, say they flee to Europe because of their sexual orientation.
“I came to Belarus as a student. My country is very bad, it does not tolerate homosexuality. That is why it is not good to live there,” says the boy.
Evelina Gudzinskaitė, Head of the Migration Department, says: “After convincing her that she is a truly homosexual person and examining the situation in the country of origin, this can be a basis for granting asylum. But this is very rare. “
Those cases, according to the head of the department, are when the homeland of asylum seekers is known for the brutal treatment of homosexual people. One of them is Chechnya. Only Gudzinskaitė does not reveal how the department can find out whether a person really has a non-traditional orientation.
“We do it in a respectful way, human dignity is inviolable, we have our own methods, which we apply to ensure that the person can really be homosexual,” says E. Gudzinskaitė.
Some asylum seekers, as already reported by TV3 in Ramzan from Chechnya, say they are fleeing their homeland because they have spoken out about the local government and risk getting ahead.
According to the head of the Migration Department, these people also hope to receive asylum, but they will also have to show that their fear is justified. On this basis, by the way, more than 30 Belarusians who had fled the Lukashenko regime received asylum this year, about half of all applicants.
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