is €2.50 per day for a single person and for a four-member-family €1.75 per person.[91] Those who cannot afford the bus are left with the only option of walking to the town which takes around 2 hours, with the return trip back to the CCAC being steeply uphill. This makes it much harder for elderly people, as well as those with disabilities or families to come to town and use the services provided by NGOs in Vathy. This includes legal assistance and essential services. People are therefore further isolated and further confined within the CCAC. Additionally, there are plans to create a new system for accessing the Wi-Fi.[92] People will be required to use their ID card number to access the Wi-Fi, cutting off all residents without an ID from accessing the CCAC internet. As a result, they will not have a possibility to communicate with their friends and family and their ability to access legal information will be limited. This will have a severe impact on people's well-being and exacerbate the CCAC's social isolation. Undignified living conditions Additional factors contribute to the undignified living conditions in the CCAC and have a severe impact on the mental health of the residents. As I Have Rights reported with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to the EU Ombudsman, in the "CCAC’s first year of operation, residents have had their access to water severely limited or completely cut off for two extended periods", this includes at the time of writing where the water is cut for 9 hours a day.[93] Residents report being plagued by bed bugs and cockroaches in their containers.[94] Beneficiaries of I Have Rights have reported that, as the cockroach infestation has become so severe, people are suffering from cockroaches biting them at night, which has impacted their ability to sleep, in turn affecting people’s mental and physical health. Crucially, the health care provided in the CCAC is insufficient. There is no permanent CCAC doctor and one psychologist for the more than 1,000 residents. Gaps in primary medical provisions were filled by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) who mounted an emergency medical response with a mobile clinic three days a _____ [91] GCR and Oxfam. 2022. Lesbos Bulletin Update on Lesbos and the Aegean Islands, by the Greek Council for Refugees & Oxfam. Available here. [92] I Have Rights. 2022. Call to the Ministry of Migration and Asylum. Available here. [93] International Rescue Committee and I Have Rights. 2023. Contribution to the European Ombudsman’s strategic inquiry into how the European Commission ensures respect for fundamental rights in EU-funded migration management facilities in Greece. Available here. [94] CCAC resident. 2022. AYS Special from Greece: The Eye —An asylum-seeker’s account on pushbacks and life in Samos Refugee Camp. Available here. Page 25

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