Mobile clinic in Florence

MEDU’s mobile unit in Florence – a camper equipped as a clinic – reaches informal settlements, and railway stations in the city of Florence and other neighboring municipalities. The objective is to provide:

primary healthcare
information on the right to health and on access to social and health services in the area.

The multi-disciplinary team of the mobile clinic is composed of:

a project coordinator
a psychologist
a cultural mediator
different professional figures – from both the healthcare and non-healthcare sectors – who operate as volunteers with a multi-disciplinary approach (doctors, nurses, obstetricians, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, social workers and legal professionals).

The service will act on a complementary function to the Regional Health Service, which will retain its central role and its function to guarantee access to health services for the general population.

Activies

Primary healthcare, as well as gcounseling about on social and health care services.
A customized medical chart and a data sheet will be prepared for each patient
The areas and the modalities of intervention are selected periodically after an accurate and continuous monitoring of the territory, giving priority to situations characterized by greater uncertainty and a lack or absence of access to social and health care services.
An epidemiological fact sheet will be created for each settlement in order to assess their sanitary conditions.

Throughout the years, the project’s multi-disciplinary team has visited different contexts, in terms of both structural features and typology of dwellers:

buildings occupied by beneficiaries of international protection;
buildings occupied by Italian and non-Italian citizens, with different nationalities and legal status;
railway stations;
informal settlements of Sinti, Roma, Caminanti and Romanian communities.

Project summary

Type of intervention

Primary healthcare, as well as counseling on social and health careservices, for people without a permanent dwelling in the cities of Florence and Prato.

Beneficiaries

Forced migrants (asylum seekers, refugees and people in transit) without a home or in precarious living conditions in Florence.

Period

2014 – ongoing.

Area of intervention

City of Florence
City of Prato

Cofinanced by:

Waldensian Church, Mormons

Contacts

How to become a volunteer

Coordination camper Florence: camperfirenze@mediciperidirittiumani.org

Description of the activities

The project is constantly in search of new volunteers (doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and legal professionals) who could support our team during the interviews with beneficiaries.

News from the project

10 March 2022

Mobile clinic in Florence

MEDU’s mobile unit in Florence – a camper equipped as a clinic – reaches informal settlements, and railway stations in the city of Florence and other neighboring municipalities. The objective is to provide: