A volunteer health clinic for undocumented migrants treated 600 people last year and was yesterday awarded a 15,000 kroner prize for its work.

A clinic for illegal immigrants in Copenhagen is being put to good use a year after it opened beside the main station in Vesterbro.

According to a report released today, almost 600 illegal immigrants, or undocumented migrants, have used the clinic since it opened last summer and its popularity is increasing.

“The report supports our justification for opening the clinic,” Susanne Larsen, president of the Red Cross in Denmark, wrote in a press release. “There is a great need for medical help among people residing illegally in Denmark and without the clinic these people would not be able to receive help for diabetes or pregnancy.”

The clinic – run by the Red Cross, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), and the Danish medical association, Lægeforeningen – has proven so popular that the clinic has taken on more and more staff to handle the numbers.

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