The US resettlement program does make such formal provision. All three of these refugees were subjected to the periodic arbitrary imprisonment of refugees by the local authorities. At the time of writing, the two young women had been released, but Ahmed's mother remained in prison. The medical inadmissibility of refugees is always problematic. A refugee patient in an unhealthy camp separated from family members in Canada will have a harder time recovering.
Family members are especially important people to traumatized refugees.
Resettlement can be effective medical treatment and will not pose any health risk. The Edmonton Centre of Survivors of Torture and Trauma is a program designed to help the resettlement of traumatized refugees. It is supported by a network of medical professionals in Edmonton and has a good record in helping refugees to deal with past trauma and begin their lives again in Edmonton. Psychological trauma should not be a barrier to resettlement. These women were medically inadmissible to Canada as refugees essentially because they are refugees.