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Beginning from next weeks, it
will be possible attending to the Immigrant Ambulatory, at the "Gervasutta"
Hospital of Udine.
It is a service given by voluntary Doctors who once or twice a week, make
themselves helpful to visit freely immigrant who have not sanitary ticket and so
they can't receive assistance from a General Practitioner, a Surgeon, and so on.
It is a very interesting experience because, as Doctor Brussi, who illustrated
us this service, told us, it is something very different from a General
Practitioner Ambulatory. You have to expect everything, starting from serious
illnesses, to people with a common cold, but who suffer because they haven't a
house and a work, and they address to the Immigrant Ambulatory asking help also for
these problems.
These doctors, besides giving treatments, can address people in a web of
services in order to face these and other problems. Moreover they give primary
treatments, (trying to reduce to the minimum the number of medical examinations
for a diagnosis, examination which often these people can't afford); they make
screenings; they plan therapies suited to people's context and conditions of
life; they listen to people's desperation and pain deriving not only by their
hard condition of life and their sense of "uproot", but also often from their
feeling of guilty for having left their sons or parents in their place of
origin; they furnish drugs bought and donated by citizens in the chemist's; they
address people when they need specialized examinations, helping them to win the
great fears which push who has not a residence permit, not to address to any
agency, fearing to be reported. All the services are given in an anonymous way,
using TPF tickets ("Temporary Present Foreigner").
Usually the Immigrant Ambulatory is open 2 hours, on Thursday from 15.00 to 17.00.
The attendance is of one by one student, in order not to create overcrowding
which can put users in a situation of further uneasiness.
For further
information please contact:
info@wolissoproject.org |
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