Medinetz
Medinetze (also Medibüros ; networks and offices for medical refugee aid ) are non-governmental organizations that advocate the medical care of people without a regulated residence status . They arrange medical help anonymously and free of charge for migrants without health insurance . At the political level, they are demanding free or low-threshold access to the health system or an anonymous health insurance certificate.
Working method
As a rule, all employees, both the mediator and the treating, work on a voluntary basis . The spectrum of those providing treatment ranges from doctors and psychotherapists to nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and physiotherapists to naturopaths. Anyone can mediate; this task is often taken on by medical students. Interpreters also often help on a voluntary basis. Any costs incurred, mostly for materials, medication or complex operations that cannot be carried out on an outpatient basis, i.e. possibly even when free doctors are not available, are financed by donations.
Legal background
In order to protect paperless people from deportation , Medinetze often do not involve authorities in the treatment process; there is no obligation to involve them, but this seems strange to some doctors. In recent years, there have also been increasing numbers of immigrants from the Eastern European EU countries (such as Bulgaria and Romania) who are legally allowed to stay in Germany, but often do not have health insurance.
history
The oldest media office has existed in Hamburg since 1994. In 1996 the Office for Medical Refugee Aid Berlin (now Medinetz Berlin ) started its work. In 1997 the Medical Refugee Aid Bochum was founded. In Germany there are 39 media networks and offices, including a. also in Munich, Düsseldorf, Dresden , Leipzig, Magdeburg, Rhine-Neckar, Göttingen, Mainz, Marburg, Kiel, Lübeck and Rostock. The youngest media office is the one in Chemnitz, which was founded in 2019.
| founding year | Surname | place |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | MediBüro | Hamburg |
| 1996 | MediBüro (formerly Office for Medical Refugee Aid ) | Berlin |
| 1997 | Medical refugee aid | Bochum |
| 1999 | Medical refugee aid | Nürnberg + Fürth (still as Medical Refugee Aid Nürnberg ) |
| 2003 | MediNetz | Bonn |
| 2005 | MediNetz | Dresden |
| 2006 | MediNetz (formerly Medical Refugee Aid ), as part of the Asylum Working Group | Bielefeld |
| 2009 | MediNetz | Ulm |
| 2011 | MediNetz | Jena |
| 2014 | MediNetz | Hall |
| 2014 | Medical help | Solingen |
| 2015 | MediNetz | Aachen |
| 2016 | MediNetz | Wurzburg |
| 2016 | MediNetz | Koblenz |
| 2017 | MediNetz | Tübingen |
| 2019 | MediBüro | Chemnitz |
Federal Congresses
Since 2008, representatives of most of the medical networks and offices have met every year for a nationwide meeting to exchange information on the current situation of medical care for migrants without health insurance.
| Federal Congress number | year | place | public part |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 2008 | Bochum | |
| 2. | 2009 | Freiburg | |
| 3. | 2010 | Leipzig | |
| 4th | 2011 | Frankfurt am Main | |
| 5. | 2012 | Dusseldorf | No |
| 6th | 2013 | Hamburg | Yes |
| 7th | 2014 | Goettingen | |
| 8th. | 2015 | Jena | Yes |
| 9. | 2016 | Berlin | Yes |
| 10. | 2017 | Dresden | Yes |
| 11. | 2018 | Kiel | |
| 12. | 2019 | Wurzburg | Yes |
Awards
The Medinetz Dresden was awarded the Saxon Promotion Prize for Democracy in 2009, the Medinetz Mainz received the Helmut Simon Prize against Poverty and Social Exclusion of the Diakonie in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2009 and the Medinetz Bonn in 2010 the Integration Prize of the City of Bonn.
Political objectives and their implementation
Many medical networks see themselves as a transitional model until a political solution for the medical care of patients without a regulated residence status is found. Such a solution are u. a. Anonymous health insurance certificates, as introduced in Lower Saxony in 2016, Thuringia in 2017, Berlin in 2018 and Rhineland-Palatinate in 2019 with funds from the state governments and in 2019 in Leipzig and Munich with funds from the city.
literature
- Maren Mylius, Wiebke Bornschlegl, Andreas Frewer : Medicine for "people without papers": Human rights and ethics in the practice of the health system , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 386234844X ( preview )
- Jakov Gather, Eva-Maria Schwienhorst: Medinetz Mainz eV - Medical placement office for refugees, migrants and people without papers , in: Éva Rásky (Ed.): Health has right to stay : Migration and health , commemorative publication on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Caritas Marienambulanz in Graz, Facultas, Vienna 2009, ISBN 3708903757 , pp. 330–339
Web links
- Website of the German medical offices, medical networks and medical refugee aid
- Health for refugees . Information portal of media offices / media networks
- Anna Kühne: Migrants without residence status - no right to health? , Ärzteblatt Sachsen 3/2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Meeting of the Medinetze in Leipzig - Medical care for people without legal residence status , Saxon State Medical Association , 2010
- ↑ Andreas Wiesner, Sandra Schmidt, Vera Bergmeyer, Ute Bruckermann: Health care for paperless people in Bremen. Results of a survey of medical practices in the state of Bremen , Medinetz Bremen (Ed.), Health Department Bremen 2008
- ↑ Vera Dudik: Ten years of help in Bonn: MediNetz intercepts refugees , General-Anzeiger Bonn , November 25, 2013
- ↑ a b Ilka Kreutzträger: Unwanted equals unsupervised , series Refugee Life (III), Taz Nord , December 9, 2011
- ^ Jonas Tauber: Medical help for "illegals" , Ärzte Zeitung , June 19, 2012
- ^ Moritz Heiser: Medinetz Ulm: Work in a legal gray area , Stuttgarter Zeitung , August 16, 2010
- ^ The Mainzer Medinetz: Students take care of undocumented sick people , Jetzt-Magazin , December 11, 2007
- ↑ Irmela Heß: Medinetz Mainz: A doctor also comes to patients without papers , Rhein-Zeitung , March 21, 2012
- ^ Medibüro Berlin: About us
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review 2009: Interview with "Medinetz Dresden" , website of the Saxon Prize for Democracy
- ↑ Medinetz Dresden eV receives the Saxon Prize for Democracy 2009 ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Dresden University of Technology , November 12, 2009
- ↑ Michael Heinze: Signs against stigmatization ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz , January 28, 2009
- ^ Frank Vallender: Bonn Integration Prize for Medinetz , General-Anzeiger Bonn , August 26, 2010
- ↑ https://sickwithoutpapers.de/
- ↑ https://aks-thueringen.de/wordpress/
