20 May, 2018 @ 16:00
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Spain sees increase in migrant mortality

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THE death rate among undocumented migrants in Spain has risen 15% since reforms denied them access to free public healthcare.

Migrants were excluded from access to public healthcare following a reform introduced by the Spanish government in 2012.

According to research by the University of Barcelona’s Economics Institute and the University Pompeu Fabra’s Center for Research in Health and Economics (CRES), it has had a direct impact on mortality rates in the population residing in Spain between 2009 and 2015 compared to the previous period from 2009 to 2012.

An additional 70 deaths per year were registered among undocumented migrants since the law was approved in 2012. The reforms were introduced by the conservative government led by the Partido Popular.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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