Dutch PM “ashamed” of asylum failings as MSF steps in

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday said he was “ashamed” of problems at the country’s centre for processing asylum requests as humanitarian group Medecins sans Frontieres sent in a team to assist with migrants’ medical needs.
His government announced a series of measures intended to address the problems at the Ter Apel centre, where hundreds of asylum seekers have been sleeping rough in recent weeks.
But Rutte said at a news conference the problems were “not something that can be solved in a few weeks or months”.
It was the first time that MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders and mostly active in poor developing nations, has worked in the Netherlands, a wealthy European Union state, the MSF emergency coordinator at the shelter said.