Testimony of MSF Psychologist after Moria Fire (EN)

MSF psychologist in Lesbos, Ellie Avramidou, recounts her patients' experiences during last Sunday's deadly fire in Moria.

The night of the fire MSF team arrived to the clinic in moria with 3 doctors, 1 psychologist, nurses and cultural mediators and has treated 30 patients.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF287979

Date taken / Date Recorded 08/10/2019 12:00 AM

Country Greece

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Ihab Abassi

Copyright Ihab Abassi/MSF

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Editor's rating ★★★★ (E)

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Additional Information / Shotlist When the fire erupted in Moria, we came to our clinic to provide emergency psychological support to people who witnessed the fire.

I remember the most a woman sitting in a wheelchair… she couldn't even talk, she was just crying…

After one hour she asked for my notebook and she wrote that she was feeling unable to protect her children and the youngest child asked her... "Mum, why did you bring me back to the war?"

Just after the fire, I remember a girl that she came and she was hitting me and she was asking me if I can feel her pain, and she told me that even if I'd give her all the medication of the world she has to go back (to Moria) and to witnesss those inhumane conditions every day.

And she is not the only one.

Many children that live in Moria withdraw from life, that means that they stop talking, they stop interacting with each other, some of them stop eating, there are many children that harm themselves and they want to end their life.

Moria is not a safe place for any child.