Migrants' medical problem

My presentation was about migrant’ medical problem. For foreigners, there are language problem and money problem. So 50 women are died by AIDS every year. I found there are some organization/people who works for foreigners, AMDA and Kobayashi Kokusai clinic. About Kobayashi Kokusai clinic, the 10%~15% of foreigners is foreigners. He hires Philippines women, she can speak Tagalog and Spanish. Mr. Kobayashi can speak Thai, English, and his wife can speak Korean. Many foreigners come to his clinic because they can take appropriate care. And AMDA is giving information for foreigners for example, which clinic can understand their language. And they give telephone interpretation services (free of charge).

My conclusion was we need more local clinic because the support for foreigners is not enough.

My discussion question were “Are you agree my conclusion?” and “What can we do about migrants’ problem?”. Some people said if we make more local clinic the balance about supply and demand will be broken. The clinic which hires interpreters will not get enough money to pay salary. I questioned a classmate, and he answered we should make more clinic which hires interpreters. If they can’t get enough money, government should help. I agreed his opinion, but it opposes Mr. Kobayashi’s belief. He don’t want to get money from government because it is not business.

My second question, the people who can help foreigners directly is specialists (medical problem⇒doctor, visa problem⇒lawyer, work problem⇒company), but what can we do. My idea is we notice the people the situation and activities. For example, we do M4R (meal for refugees) in medical university. And a young doctor will be interested in the problem, and imitate the activities, for example Mr. Kobayashi. I think we can give information. The classmate agreed my opinion.

Sources:

・http://amda.or.jp/

・http://5884-international-clinic.com/tokki.html

・http://eng.amd-imic.com

・http://amda-imic.com/modules/jisseki/index.php?content_id=13

・https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/English/topics/20130222151509.html

・http://mainichi.jp/area/gunma/news/20151117ddlk1004020600c.html

・http://www.jil.go.jp/foreign/jihou/2004_1/thailand_03html

・http://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/47957

・http://www.jil.go.jp/foreign/jihou/2004_11/thailand_01.html

・http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~yamawaki/gmj/immigrants.htm