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Feature: Slovenia guarantees all refugees a safe and healthy transition through territory

Xinhua, October 31, 2015 Adjust font size:

Sentilj, a small town in Slovenian Maribor region just a stone's throw away from the Austrian border, now is currently hosting a larger number of refugees than that at the accomodation centres in Slovenia's Brezice and Dobova near Croatia.

It is a sunny mid-Friday. Several Slovenian volunteers, wearing simple, normal masks, are sorting out a huge pile of the dark gray blankets at the entrance of the refugee accommodation camp. The hundreds of blankets, which were once used by the refugees who had left the camp earlier for Austria, will be distributed to the coming refugees transferred from other accommodation centres across the country.

At the police and military guarded camp sites, dozens of Slovenian municipal staff and women volunteers are busy with cleaning the five huge white tents, two of which have the maximum capacity of 210 beds each and the other three the capacity of 130 beds each.

The five tents are well placed with clear sign of the serial number as well as warnings that advise each person to take one blanket, while the rows of white and blue colored mobile toilets and a makeshift shower cabin standing nearby.

Just outside the the camp three electricity technician workers on a crane are placing an additional power line from the camp site to the nearby railway crossing in construction of a 100-metre-long temporary railway station platform to help tens of thousands of refugees to board the train bound for Austria.

On Friday a Slovenian health ministry official has assessed that refugees in Slovenia are being provided good medical care while representatives of the World Health Organisation (WHO), who are on a visit to Slovenia, have also commended the medical assistance being offered to refugees.

A Slovenian senior official in charge of the accommodation centre, who asked not to be named, told Xinhua that the huge flows of refugees coming into Slovenia in the past few days are real test for the country.

"We want to make our efforts to guarantee all refugees a safe and healthy transition in Slovenian territory," the official said. Endit