In 2025, the Danish government announced that women can receive compensation in the spiral case. Travel teams must help the women.
A special travel team will travel from Denmark to Greenland during the autumn to help women seek compensation in the spiral case.
This is reported by Patient Reimbursement to DR.
In December 2025, the Danish government announced that women who had an IUD installed without consent in the period 1960-1991 can receive DKK 300,000 in compensation.
The Ministry of the Interior and Health has previously stated that approximately 4,500 women may be entitled to compensation.
At the end of September, the first round trip begins. The team is planning two more round trips in 2027.
According to DR’s information, the travel team must make presentations in selected cities and towns.
The group consists of a lawyer who is also a nurse, a Greenlandic psychologist, an interpreter and a retired judge.
The group must also support the women who may be retraumatized by the case.
Help is also offered to the Greenlandic women who live in Denmark, writes DR.
The travel team will become a formal reality when the bill is passed in the Danish Parliament.
The government will “as soon as possible” bring forward the bill on the travel allowance and the reimbursement scheme, according to the government basis for the new so-called four-leaf clover government.
The term spiral case covers the fact that young Greenlandic women and girls were fitted with a contraceptive spiral during a campaign that started in the 1960s.
Several women have since told the media that they had not given consent.
Both Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) and Naalakkersuisut’s chairman, Jens-Frederik Nielsen (D), gave an apology in the case last year.
This is because there have been cases both while Denmark was responsible for the healthcare system in Greenland and after Greenland took the area home.
A report dealing with the human rights aspects of the spiral case is expected in August. The publication of the report has been delayed several times.
