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Latvia
Our work in Latvia
In 2022, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started to provide medical and mental health care to migrants and asylum seekers held in detention centers across Latvia.
MSF closed activities in Latvia in December 2022.
How we are helping in Latvia
MSF assisted migrants and asylum seekers held in the Mucenieki and Daugavpils immigration detention centers. In addition to psychological and psychosocial support, our teams provided hygiene kits, food, items such as books, board games and stationery, and some financial aid. However, since our teams were not granted unrestricted access to patients, it was difficult to deliver care that ensured medical confidentiality and compliance with medical ethics, and we therefore closed our activities in Latvia in December 2022.
How you can help
Not everyone can treat patients in the field. But everyone can do something.
Some humanitarian crises make the headlines—others don’t. Unrestricted support from our donors allows us to mobilize quickly and efficiently to provide lifesaving medical care to the people who need it most, whether those needs are in the spotlight or not. And your donation is 100 percent tax-deductible.
