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.
Adresă
Via M. Leto Casini 11
50135 Firenze
Italia
Metodă de contact preferată
E-mail
Program de primire
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
Grup țintă
- Persoană cu boli grave
- Boală fizică
- Afecțiuni cronice
- Consumul de substanțe
- Persoane cu afecțiuni sau tulburări de sănătate mintală
- Probleme de sănătate mintală
- Tulburare diagnosticată de sănătate mentală
- Persoane care au fost supuse sau au fost expuse riscului de:
- Tortură sau alte tratamente inumane sau degradante
- Viol
- Forme grave de violență psihologică, fizică sau sexuală
Serviciu furnizat
- Sănătate
- Servicii de urgență
- Medicamente
- Îngrijire medicală primară
- Medic de familie
- Asistentă
- Îngrijire medicală specializată
- Psihologie
- Sprijin psihosocial
- Furnizarea de informații despre serviciile medicale selectate
- Alte servicii
- Evaluarea vulnerabilităților (de către serviciul specializat)
- Servicii de interpretariat/Mediere culturală