Solidarity in Healthcare: Poor, Undocumented Migrants and Hospitals in the Developing Countries
Description
In 1982 Dr. Colasanti, in Rome (Italy) founded a
medical center with the specific purpose of helping
illegal immigrants and Roma people, all of
whom were afraid to seek medical treatment in
Rome. The mission of the Center was to work on
medicine of migration and poverty, tropical diseases,
and trans-cultural psychiatry for the migrants. It was
something unique in the landscape of Italian medicine:
the birth of a real laboratory for social medicine that
would change medical practices. This first experience
was not only a means and way to give medical aid to
the poor but, at the same time, a way to recreate a
new way to practice medicine. This mystical "core" of
generosity, has neither "why" nor "purpose". It is
without reasons because it comes from the deepest
part of our essence, grounded in the presence of our
God in ourselves.
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Published 11/20/15
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