20 Women Have Applied for Compensation for the ‘Coil Campaign'

20 Greenlandic women applied for compensation for having an IUD or other form of contraception inserted without their consent after January 1992, when Greenland became responsible for the health system, reports KNR.

Greenland's government, Naalakkersuisut, agreed last year to set aside DKK 4.5 million for 15 women in connection with the spiral case, i.e. 300,000 kroner each. A week and a half ago, the government was ready to receive applications. 20 women have now applied.

Greenland's Minister of Justice, Naaja H. Nathanielsen, says that the government has been prepared for the possibility that more than 15 women were affected.

"These are probably also large dark figures," she says.

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