MEDU is a democratic, non-profit organization independent of political, trade union, religious, and ethnic affiliations. Founded in Rome in 2004, MEDU aims to provide healthcare to vulnerable populations in Italy and abroad, while also denouncing human rights violations, particularly those related to exclusion from the right to health. MEDU operates in Rome and Florence through its Mobile Clinics, offering primary healthcare and providing information on the right to health and access to care.
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. 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.
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
Beneficiaries
Forced migrants (asylum seekers, refugees and people in transit) without a home or in precarious living conditions in Florence.
Adresse
Via M. Leto Casini 11
50135 Firenze
Italien
Bevorzugte Kontaktmethode
E-Mail
Dienstzeiten
Monday: 10:00-13:00
Tuesday: 10:00-13:00, 17:00-21:00
Wednesday: 10:00-13:00, 17:00-20:00
Thursday: 10:00-13:00, 17:00-20:00
Friday: 10:00-13:00, 17:00-20:00
Zielgruppe
- Person mit schweren Erkrankungen
- Physische Erkrankung
- Chronische Erkrankungen
- Drogenabhängigkeit/Substanzmissbrauch
- Persons with mental health conditions or disorders
- Psychische Störungen
- Diagnosed mental disorder
- Personen, die ... ausgesetzt waren oder davon bedroht sind
- Torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment
- Geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt
- Schwere Formen psychischer, körperlicher oder sexueller Gewalt
Erbrachte Dienstleistung
- Medizinische Versorgung
- Notfalldienste
- Arzneimittel
- Medizinische Grundversorgung
- Allgemeinmediziner(in)
- Pflegekraft
- Spezialisierte medizinische Versorgung
- Psychologie
- Psychologische Unterstützung
- Bereitstellung von Informationen über die ausgewählten Gesundheitsdienstleistungen
- Sonstige Dienste
- Beurteilung der Schutzbedürftigkeit (durch einen spezialisierten Dienst)
- Dolmetscherdienste/Kulturmittlung