Once again, there were multiple shipwrecks off the Italian coast during the year. In response, we deployed a mobile team to six locations in Sicily and Calabria, where they conducted eight psychological first-aid interventions to assist survivors and families of the victims.
In northern Italy, our mobile team provided medical consultations, referrals, and health care orientation to hundreds of people waiting to cross into France, most of whom were living in precarious conditions in unofficial settlements in the city of Ventimiglia after being pushed back from the border.
In Palermo, we maintained our support to the university hospital, delivering comprehensive care for migrants who had experienced torture and intentional violence in Libya and during their journeys. The project has an interdisciplinary approach, offering medical, psychological, social, and legal assistance to patients.
MSF volunteers scaled up support to migrants by opening two new helpdesks in Rome and Naples. Like the ones already running in Palermo, Turin, and Udine, they serve to guide and support migrants, asylum seekers and marginalized people to access medical services.
