40 7. Health ■ During summer 2010, doctors working for the 4th Health District of Evros, along with the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP), provided medical treatment in the Evros region. There was one doctor and a nurse covering both Fylakio and Feres and a psychologist who was responsible for the four detention centres in Evros, as well as for Venna. Owing to funding shortfalls, even these two doctors and the nurse did not continue working after 2010. From November 2010 until April 2011, the HCDPC run a program aimed at safeguarding public health and at providing medical and psychological support to irregular migrants detained in the Evros region. There was a team of six (doctors, social workers, psychologists and interpreters) and two mobile units working in the region. In the same period, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) were running a program in the region, covering both Soufli and Tychero detention centres, providing emergency support and medical care to help detainees. From March until July, the Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity, funded by ERF-emergency funds, implemented a project in the region of Evros providing detainees with medical and psychological support.124 This project was coordinated by HCDCP, planning medical examination and assessment of all migrants, psychological screening, psycho-social and medical support upon request and disease surveillance. 3 doctors, 4 nurses, 2 psychologists, one social worker, drivers, technical medical staff and about five interpreters were hired for a three months period and worked in Fylakio, Feres, Tychero, Venna, Soufli and Poros. Almost at the same time, spanning from May 2011 to the end of July of the same year, the Ministry of Citizen Protection ran a program that was financed by the Emergency Measures of the European Refugee Fund (ERF), which provided for interpreters, social workers and psychologists. The mobile units stayed 1-2 weeks in each detention centre of Evros and Rhodopi. The program was also carried out in Athens. In the beginning of August 2011, MSF were asked to fill the gap in healthcare provision, waiting for the renewal of the Ministry of Health’s new program. Upon return to Evros, MSF stated that concerning the detention conditions, there have been no improvements since their last mission, other than the decrease of the number of people detained in the region, demanding for a more effective healthcare provision in the region. The Ministry re-started their program on September 29 of the same year. It will end in February 2012. They employed one doctor at each detention centre except Soufli and Feres (which have to share one), one psychologist (only for Soufli, Feres and Tychero), one interpreter at each detention centre (meaning only one language is covered), one social worker for Fylakio and one for Venna, as well as three nurses: one for Fylakio, one for Tychero and one for Soufli and Feres.125 As can be easily derived from the above facts, there has been a constant lack of medical staff. Womens’ bathroom in Ferres often lacks warm water Toilettes in detention are usually not working or/ and very dirty 124 EU project: ›Implementation of healthcare and psychosocial support activities for third country nationals that may require international protection in the area of Evros, Greece‹. 125 http://www.keelpno.gr/images/stories/keelpno/Theseis_ Ergasias/programa2010_prosklisi.pdf