Conceived in Syria, born in Croatia.
On Monday night, a woman from Syria gave birth to a baby girl at the maternity ward of the Slavonski Brod hospital. The mother was accommodated at the temporary refugee camp in Slavonski Brod. A spokeswoman for Brod-Posavina Police Department Kata Nujić confirmed that the delivery went smoothly, reports Index.hr and Vecernji List on December 23, 2015.
That is the second baby born in the hospital in Slavonski Brod since a temporary centre for refugees has been established in the city. Nujić confirmed that on Sunday there was a second death among refugees in Croatia when a 59 year old man died.
From midnight to 9 pm on Tuesday, 2,023 migrants entered Croatia. There were 924 people accommodated at the temporary reception centre in Slavonski Brod. Since the beginning of the migration crisis, 527,456 migrants and refugees have passed through Croatia
The number of refugees and immigrants who arrived in the EU by land and sea this year has exceeded a million, and about 3,600 of them have died or disappeared along the way, announced on Tuesday the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Half of them are Syrians fleeing the war, 20 percent come from Afghanistan, and 7 percent from Iraq.
Of 1,005,504 arrivals in Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Malta and Cyprus by 21 December, the vast majority arrived by sea to Greece, according to the IOM. “We know that migrations are inevitable, they are necessary and desirable”, IOM Director William Lacy Swing said. “But, it is not enough to just count those who arrive or almost 4,000 of those who this year went missing or have drowned. We must act. The migrations must be legal and safe both for immigrants and for countries that will become their new homes”, he added.
UNHCR expects that a similar influx will continue in 2016, but a spokesman for the IOM Joel Millman said it was impossible to predict the specific figures. “It depends on many things, the outcome of the war in Syria and the regime of protection of European borders”, he said. “We had not expected so many refugees. We just hope everybody will treat these people with dignity”, he concluded.
