The Changes of Technology and Communication of Denmark's Concerns

In the past years, the world has seen a great many changes. For many, these were the changes in technology and communication. But what mainly concerns us today is the health condition of the common people. With the rise of conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa in the recent years, the number of refugees has also increased greatly and resulted to reach the number of 1 Billion. And for this particular reason, we will be addressing today about the healthcare of the refugees. Being in the 34th position in the WHO health ranking Denmark has proved to the world how to ensure proper health care to the people by proper steps and planned policies. But Denmark also recognizes the fact that Quality is a thing that should not be depleted while rising the Quantity.

The Kingdom of Denmark is concerned about the health issues of the refuges mainly in Europe and the Asian countries especially Syria, Bangladesh and CAF. Being a nation which provides her citizens with one of the best healthcare facilities (life expectancy 80.80 years, ranked 27th,) we are deeply concerned about the 250 million International migrants among whom65 million are forcibly displaced from their homes along with 763 million internal migrants. We also show our concerned about the refugees in Turkey, Germany, and other developing nations.

Bangladesh can be an example of the condition of the refugees. Being developing nation she is fighting with the epidemic and health care of the people but also is providing healthcare to the 0.7 million Rohingya mass who have fled and driven away from their home country. 95% of the refugees do not have access to clean water let alone good sanitation facility. We show our gratitude to Bangladesh to administer the second largest Oral Cholera Vaccination Campaign which is 700,487 in total and to WHO to enact the WHA 61.17 on the month of May of 2008 for the migrants. But at the same time, they are facing the odd effects of it. It may seem odd that our country has shown a PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE STANCE against the refugees is only because we want to provide the refugees with permanent protection with all benefits instead of temporary benefits with lower health, medication and sanitation facility. At the same time, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is working for the better living of the refugees and to mitigate their hardship in various Refugee Camps.

For better insight, we want to insight a quote of Demetrios. Papademetriou,‘“We want to protect the fact that my country, a small country, is an extremely wealthy country; that it provides these exceptional benefits to its people; and we don’t want to compromise my ability to receive those benefits simply because more and more people want to come in.”

Expressing our deepest sympathies and addressing these concerns, Denmark would suggest the following to be in action as soon as possible:

• To prepare, in full consultation and cooperation with the Member States and in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration and UNHCR and other relevant stakeholders, a draft framework of priorities and guiding principles to promote the health of refugees and migrants.
• To make every possible effort, in close collaboration with Member States, and based on the guiding principles, to ensure that health aspects are adequately addressed in the development of the global compact on refugees and the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, in close collaboration with relevant international organizations and to report them to the committee.
• To conduct a situation analysis by identifying and collecting experiences and lessons learned on the health of refugees and migrants in each region, in order to provide inputs for the development of the framework of priorities and guiding principles to promote the health of refugees and migrants.
• To find out the areas of expenditures for the sanitation and health-related issues of the Refugees. Besides to establish tube well and to work on the excavation of wells in the African countries like Chad, Somalia.
• To donate or allocate a part of the GDP for different NGOs or as donation member nation to provide better sanitation and health facilities to the refugees.
• To take a step to prevent the communicable diseases and preventing and reducing the threats that are posed by the non-communicable disease.