US doctor says refugee camp on Lesvos is a place without 'human dignity'

A camp on the Greek island of Lesbos housing more than 2,500 migrants denies people the most basic human dignity in bitterly cold winter weather, a doctor working at the camp said. Diane Sampson, an American paediatrician, said she had treated desperate patients at the Moria camp suffering from frostbite, shivering with cold and drenched by snow and rain that had washed through the flimsy tents they are staying in.

"This camp is definitely one of the least prepared ones that I have seen. It's not really prepared for the weather conditions," Sampson, who has worked in the camp for nearly three weeks, said by telephone from Lesbos.  Tents are leaking and standing in cold water and migrants have no way of drying their clothes and bedding after days of heavy snow and rain, said Sampson.

"In a situation like that our main responsibility is to look at these human beings and...