MSF’s response in Ter Apel, the Netherlands’ main reception centre for asylum seekers, has ended with improved sanitation conditions and a decrease in severe medical needs. We call on the Dutch government to ensure that people seeking asylum in the Netherlands have access to medical care and humane reception conditions.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he is "ashamed" as hundreds of asylum-seekers have been forced to sleep in the sweltering heat outside an overcrowded migrant reception center in Ter Apel.