Motion:
We ask OCB to honor its duty to care by ensuring that regional medical coverage is available for certain staff and/or their dependents with a proven need for care that is not available in the mission country.
Background and explanation:
The health regulations for MSFOCB national staff only refer to care available in the country where the MSF-B mission is located. Referrals and medical recommendations to health care/services outside the mission country are not applied by the mission.
Some conditions that require care not available locally are potentially life-threatening if not provided. This care can be found in bordering countries or in the region of the country of the MSF-B mission.
These exceptional situations of need for care could be analysed on a case-by-case basis in order to find a life-saving formula for national staff in need but at the end of their means of survival.
FAD in Burundi