Back to SearchThe Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care aims to provide humanitarian medical treatment and assistance to those new to Canada who find themselves medically uninsured and precariously insured. Many newcomers fall through the cracks of Canada’s health care system and are placed within medical limbo.
Service providers, due to varying factors, find it difficult to know who qualifies for care and who does not. This results in several newcomers who need both basic and urgent medical, dental, and psychosocial care turned away. For example, refugees making claims for asylum in Canada are often caught in healthcare limbo without any health insurance when claims are denied or interrupted. In addition, government-assisted refugees are frequently turned away for medical care by doctors and clinics who will not accept their Canadian Federal Health Insurance coverage and new permanent residents accepted by Canada must go without healthcare access for 90 days.
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