Inability to pay the account in question was entirely due to a long delay in the payment of the amount received by MdM as funding from the European Refugee Fund in order to be able to cover the operating costs of a hostel. As a result, both the hostel that houses 70 people including 20 minors, and the Open Polyclinic, which treats 100-150 patients a day, were temporarily closed.
We note additionally that the administration of EYDAP refused to include MdM Greece on a list of special rates for Relief Organisations on the basis that MdM is not strictly speaking, according to law, a charity.
MDM protest very strongly about this unprecedented and callous act that denies Athens – even temporarily – a social clinic that provides free medical and pharmaceutical care from volunteer doctors, but also condemns unprotected children and mothers to staying in the city center without basic supplies such as water.