Yesterday doctors, nurses, health workers and concerned members of the public held rallies across Canada to demand restoration of federal funding for the Interim Federal Health Program which provides health care for refugees and asylum seekers in Canada.
Here are some photos from the Vancouver rally.
Media Coverage:
BC doctors, nurses protest refugee health cuts
MDs call on Ottawa to retract changes
Refugees ask feds to restore benefits
Canadan doctors stage 'day of action' to protest refugee health care cuts
The Specator's View: Refugee Health Cuts Exposed As A Failure
Cuts to refugee health-care continue to endanger lives
Doctors plead for cuts to refugee health coverage to be reversed
Doctors say public purse and public health at risk because of federal cuts
Refugees suffer consequences of federal spending cuts, doctors say
