The emergency organisational machine of the Asl of Frosinone is fully operational and has already taken charge of the first refugees from Ukraine, subjecting them to all the necessary checks.
The outpatient team led by Dr. Mario Limodio, head of Integrated Health Services: Immigrants, Gender Medicine and Fight against Poverty, joined by the doctor Marco Agostini and the other members of the multi-ethnic service, three nurses, a social worker and a midwife, is dealing with assistance to refugees by issuing, as a first step, the STP card (Temporarily Present Foreigners) to access the Health Service.
Immediately afterwards, the refugees are subjected to anamnesis and medical examination in the presence of mother-tongue cultural mediators, also identified among the ASL staff who deal with translation.
Also in the first phase, all refugees are subjected to the Covid swab. The first ones carried out yesterday showed a 50% positivity and in collaboration with the SISP, all the positives were placed in isolation.
A necessary screening to prevent the virus from increasing circulation among the local population, considering that Ukraine before the conflict had registered only 30% of those vaccinated and the recent dramatic experience of refugees has not allowed them to respect distancing and use protective equipment.
Among the first people rescued was also a young woman in the 32nd week of gestation, immediately taken in charge of by the midwife of the outpatient team who booked the necessary check-ups to monitor the path of pregnancy.
ASL is now working to organise vaccinations: “Together with Dr. Maria Gabriella Calenda, head of the vaccination service – explains Dr. Mario Limodio – Covid vaccination is being planned immediately for unvaccinated refugees who are not positive for the swab.
This is also to spread the value of Reception and Solidarity that has always been demonstrated by our fellow citizens. Collective health is safeguarded by the ASL institutions that have been tested for years to assist refugees such as those from Africa.
The meeting with young people on 8 March “Women against the war” aims to be an awareness of our values enshrined in the Constitution”.
