From the article:
However, the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health said a decision has been made not to take in any patients from Gaza because “Finland does not have the necessary resources to respond to the patient evacuation requests”. The ministry added that, with limited resources, “Finland has decided to prioritise assistance to Ukraine with regard to patient evacuations.”
Seems reasonable to me.
This number includes a list of 109 severely ill and injured children, which the WHO hoped would be treated in EU countries.
Of the 27 member states, so far just seven EU countries have announced that they will accept patients from Gaza — Spain, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania and Slovakia. Norway has also committed to taking in 20 patients.
The first 16 seriously injured children were evacuated to Spain in July.
If you can not handle 20 children then I will wish you good luck that you may be able to fix your health system.
How about counties take a number of them equal to the weight of weapons supplied to Israel.
Also include those countries that supplied rockets to Hamas.
From the article:
The Financial Times newspaper reported that, based on WHO figures, over 9,000 patients are in need of urgent treatment as Gaza’s health system has become overwhelmed. This number includes a list of 109 severely ill and injured children, which the WHO hoped would be treated in EU countries.
9000 / 27 = ~334
Meanwhile:
Norway has also committed to taking in 20 patients.
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The first 16 seriously injured children were evacuated to Spain in July.
Peanuts.
Also if splitting it by approx. the countries population it gets even lower. Finland has like 5.6 of ca. 450 million EU inhabitants. So that number goes down to like 100 people.
Finland is claiming that their health system cannot take in a hundred patients? If i was Finnish i would leave immediately and seek refugee, as their system must be at imminent collapse, according to their government.
If i was Finnish i would leave immediately and seek refugee, as their system must be at imminent collapse, according to their government.
I’m Finnish and I know you’re joking, but you’re honestly not missing the truth much.
This place is absolutely overrated. “Happiest country in the world”? No, it isn’t and no such study ever measures Finns Happiness.
I wonder how many of these studies are made by the tourism branch of economy to attract travellers.
Anyways, hope you’re doing fine up there :)
There are plenty of countries closer by that can handle this
The nearby countries are either already doing their part, themselves being attacked by Israel either overtly or covertly, or both.
It is not surprising that countries in eastern and northern Europe feel the need to focus on refugees from countries on our own continent
Sure, xenophobia isn’t SURPRISING at this point. Doesn’t justify it, though.
the hundreds of thousands of people that came from MENA during the 2010s are still straining our welfare systems to a degree where it degrades our ability to help both our own citizens and refugees within Europe.
Pure far right propaganda bullshit. Immigrants are on average a net improvement to the economy of the destination, refugees especially so. The vast majority of people making use of social safety nets are native born.
Sincerely, Dane with no foreign ancestry in at least a dozen generations who’s sick of all the xebophobic demagoguery from the people pretending to speak for him.
As a Finn, Finland is highly fucking overrated.
I’m used to see impressive and progressive news about Finland. I know it’s easy to fawn over a place I haven’t been to, but it seems to have its “head screwed on” in terms of governance and quality of life.
Well, yes and no.
I know I would have it worse in a lot of other places, but also, quite a few of the problems I have, I wouldn’t have had, so I wouldn’t have necessarily had it worse. Depends.
I think this whole “happiest country in the world” shit exemplifies some of what I mean. The study was about contentedness. So Finland is a place in which people say they are the least not-miserable. Finnish culture has this sort of “don’t complain” thing in it. I don’t know if it was a common saying in other places, but when I would hurt myself as a kid, the most common phrase to hear was “it can’t hurt if it’s not bleeding”.
Finland has the most complaints about police abuse in the Nordics. More than all the other Nordics complained, about 40million vs like 5. But Finns have a very hard time believing the police actually behave poorly and abuse their power. I have personal experience on this. https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000009654524.html Quite a lot actually.
I’m happy that I can be rather sure that I don’t have to rob or fight people, as we do have social security, but the bureaucracy around it is ridiculous, needless, expensive, slow, fucked, just absolute garbage.
Essentially the only problems we have is the ones we’ve created ourself, is my point. But then most Finns don’t want to recognise those issues. Which is one of the main issues.
Kiitos, that was insightful. I’ve heard of the “don’t complain” trait before. I think it can lead to painful repression in us as people.
Essentially the only problems we have is the ones we’ve created ourself, is my point. But then most Finns don’t want to recognise those issues. Which **is** one of the main issues.
That does sound like an impossible situation.
