Refugee health: why bother?

At the end of 2015, one in every 122 people worldwide was forced to leave their home. As a result of this exceptional situation, 1.4 million people applied for asylum in Europe. Coming mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, many of these people are here today, waiting to find out their fate. Traumatic experiences in their home countries, exodus, waiting, the spectre of deportation... all factors contributing to the psychological distress of refugees, the main diagnosis facing the medical profession,