Seventeen humanitarian organizations on Tuesday sent a joint letter to Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis, expressing their concern about the thousands of asylum seekers and their children living in Greece and who do not have access to the public health system.

The government’s 5+1 actions, including the closing down of hotspots in Mytilene, Chios and Samos (Moria, Vial and Vathi respectively), the conversion to closed centers of existing structures in Leros and Kos as well as measures to support local communities in order to tackle the illegal immigration problem were announced by State Minister Stelios Petsas and Deputy Minister of National Defence Alkibiades Stephanis.

Members of humanitarian organizations warn of catastrophe in Greek refugee camps, speaking of "children who have been bitten by scorpions, rats and snakes", "hundreds of people forced to use a single shower", "food shortages that tend to become regular" in the hotspots of the eastern Aegean islands, as reported by the Guardian.