The Canadian Centre for Refugee & Immigrant Health Care – Where Care Matters More Than A Card

Providing primary care capacity when virtual care alone can’t meet medically necessary community care. The tent outdoor clinic is open to our full community (including the newcomer community we serve) who need direct care / assessment, but can’t access it. The current deterioration in community primary care is resulting in increasing and serious health risks in our community.

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Covid-19 virus will disproportionately harm the most vulnerable and impoverished in our society. Thousands of school children across the GTA rely on breakfast nutrition programs and support. Now caught in school closures many are at risk of going without. This includes many of the children we treat at the Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care. To help respond our Centre is expanding our modest food bank. Twenty dollars will provide breakfast for one child — for an entire week.

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COVID-19 Response

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From a handful of doctors and nurses treating patients in a borrowed church basement, our Centre provides medical, dental mental health and dietary care to thousands of refugees, immigrants and other newcomers to Canada. At the same time we have grown to be a nationally recognized authority on the healthcare and well-being of newcomers to Canada.

Our History

Our Inter-disciplinary team of over 70 doctors, dentists, nurses, and other health and social professionals have generously volunteered their time, skills and funds in an effort to ensure that every newcomer receives access in Canada to health care when they need it, without judgment for their immigration status or their ability to pay.

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Who are we?

Years

Doctors Within Borders

They are new to Canada, ineligible for insured services at times on their Canadian journey. They rely on the medical lifeline of CCRIHC’s free clinics as their only hope. Over 50,000 medical visits and counting. As the number of displaced migrants throughout the world rises dramatically we see it ripple through our clinics. We are always taking on a growing number of newcomers when they are ill and uninsured / underinsured. Healthcare plays a vital role in restoring their health, hopes, dignity, and resiliency for long-term success in Canada.

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500,000

Our clinics ease the pressure on Canada’s health care system. Keeping patients healthier in the community, reducing expensive hospital care is what we do every day.

$24.4 Million

Our Impact

Why We Exist?

An estimated

People are living, often working in Ontario but are denied OHIP

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Chemotherapy, then surgery to remove her cancerous breast, then more chemo followed by radiation lies urgently ahead. The cost will be an estimated $40,000. Our first goal is to raise the $12,000 for chemo and to have Grace's cancer surgically removed.

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Grace has breast cancer. For 20 years she has lived and worked full time in central Toronto. She needs surgery urgently. Then she will need chemotherapy, meds and radiation. With treatment, Grace has a chance to live. Without it, she will not make it. Grace is young, 51.

But Grace is medically uninsured. Despite her contributions, Canada still denies Grace access to federal health coverage. Ontario denies her too. For Grace, OHIP means NOHIP.

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diabetes program

chiropody Program

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