‘Unsafe’ UK accommodation threatens asylum seekers’ health – report

Some of the 400 or so asylum seekers held at Napier barracks in Folkestone last year. Inspectors called conditions there ‘fundamentally unsuitable’. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty

Asylum seekers’ accommodation is “unsafe” due to inadequate healthcare, while poor living conditions are exacerbating or creating mental and physical health problems, according to a new report by Doctors of the World.

The charity’s research, published on Wednesday, details the barriers to medical care and medication for asylum seekers in initial accommodation across the UK.