Asylum-seekers in relatively healthy condition

According to the Department of Inner-Cantonal Affairs (ID), which is responsible for matters relating to asylum-seekers in the canton, most of the refugees who have arrived here are in a relatively healthy state.
 
Rudolf Hauri, the cantonal doctor, said that most of them will have had a health check prior to their having been sent to Zug by the Swiss state authorities.
 
Asylum-seekers arriving here have a right to basic medical care and it up to the cantonal authorities, in this case the ID, to ensure this is provided to the 1,300 of them currently housed in Zug, However, a number are known to be suffering from hepatitis B, HIV, malaria or tuberculosis.
 
It is to be expected that a number of them sustained some sort of physical injury or mental trauma as a result of the situation they found themselves in while still in their homeland or as a result of the journey from there to Switzerland. Indeed, coming to terms with their fate has not been easy and a number of them have been found to be suffering from chronic stomach-ache, headaches and sleeplessness.
 
As Hauri further explained, there are no doctors who have been designated specifically to look after asylum-seekers, it is the regular general practitioners who have to deal with them, with the asylum section of Social Services helping to arrange appointments where necessary. Its departmental head, Irène Wyss, said how grateful she was for people who volunteer to accompany asylum-seekers to their appointments, and where necessary, help to interpret.