Tonio Borg

EU wants to standardise migrant health screening

Published by Kathimerini on Tue, 04/29/2014 - 16:28


The European Union said Tuesday it would promote common guidelines across the bloc for the health screening of incoming migrants and refugees.

“My intention is to set up a working group... to create guidelines on what (diseases) to screen for, when and how,” EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg said during a two-day informal meeting of EU health ministers in Athens.