Earning a lot from meager care for asylum seekers

No treatment table, no doctor’s bag. And just pen and paper to write down complaints. Good care is hard to find in the crisis emergency shelter for asylum seekers, while secondment company Physician & Specialist make a lot of money out of it. Lucas Brouwers and Carola Houtekamer investigated the world behind the care for asylum seekers and saw an expensive and inefficient system. How did it come to this?

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Guest:
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coordination:
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