A new emergency is developing \u201cBehind the Doors of the European Crisis\u201d: the impossibility for the weaker economic classes to access health care and their disease consumed within the home. Dark interiors. Spotlights. Eyes lowered that don\u2019t look at the camera, because they hide the disease and an unmentionable shame: the one of not being able to afford treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Spain and Greece, in the heart of Europe hit by the crisis, continuous cuts in health care imposed by the spending reviews have transformed hospitalization, a doctor’s visit, and ordinary medicine into a luxury good. The French Revolution explicitly inserted the right to health care in the \u201cUniversal Declaration of Human Rights\u201d. Health care today on the Old Continent is becoming extinct and if the cause hits every social class, the most serious effects are on the poorer classes: income is the divide and thousands of people are inevitably condemned to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2012, on a two-monthly grant assignment for the NGO M\u00e9dicos del Mundo, I photographed some of them to give them an identity, in Greece and in Spain, where the cuts were harshest. One Athens resident out of eleven eats at the soup kitchens; the eating habits of six Greeks out of ten have become worse. In sunny, tolerant Spain, the crisis has turned into xenophobia: as of September 1, 2012, health care has been denied to undocumented non-EU citizens. Laura, Thiago, Landi Fan, Eduardo, Chaoki, Elsa, Wilmer, Antonis. These are stories of men and women. Stories may be hidden behind our neighbor’s door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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