“Whatever the plans the Traveller community has to be represented there. People have reached a point now where they are not asking anymore, they are demanding that this be addressed.
“I have never seen a section of society that has had so many strategies, so many studies, so many recommendations and they still are in a situation of huge crisis in their health,” said Ms Collins., who started the first Traveller primary care project in the 1990s, said no-one could tell her better than she had experienced herself, about the Travellers’ poor health. She had lost her husband – “a young man” and siblings to ill health.
“The determinants of health is discrimination, bad living conditions, unemployment and education. I know that from going out onto the sites and seeing young mothers, old people, struggling. Where I live in group housing and there’s a about seven young men after dying [by suicide] out of 50 houses. It has to change for us. There is no use promising me we’re going to try . . . It has to happen for us. I am angry.
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