Fatoumata Bamba was a 26-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast. She arrived in Lampedusa in the morning on February 18 after crossing the Mediterranean with her husband from Sfax, Tunisia, in a small iron boat. 13 hours later, she was dead. Could hear death have been avoided?
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has opened two centers in Rome, providing help to vulnerable people -- in particular migrants. They are working closely together with the migrant support organization Baobab Experience and social and cultural organization Villetta Social Lab.
A Syrian migrant is "fighting for life after falling off a border wall" between Belarus and Poland, says broadcaster Al Jazeera. Recently more people have begun attempting to cross the border into the EU.
Researchers have detected a sharp rise in diphtheria cases among migrants in the UK and across Europe. Experts are calling for better health care to combat the infection.
A third migrant has reportedly lost a limb after suffering frostbite at the Belarus-Lithuania border. That's according to Lithuanian authorities who confirmed they had to amputate an Egyptian man's leg on Thursday.
The European Union has opened up a hub for medical evacuations of Ukrainian patients in Poland. The aim is to speed up transfers to European medical facilities.
Saxony's Refugee Council is mobilizing against the imminent deportation of Pham Phi Son, who came to Germany from Vietnam in 1987 as a GDR contract worker. The Chemnitz resident is being threatened with deportation because he had been in Vietnam for over six months for medical treatment.
This is the story of Nazifa Noor Ahmad, an Afghan woman who arrived in Italy as a child in 2008 to be treated for a severe form of Hodgkin lymphoma. The young woman died at age 20 on Wednesday (June 15), only a few days after a lung transplant she had undergone.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has launched a program in Italy to provide support to Ukrainians who have fled the conflict. The initiative is already active in Milan, Rome and Trieste and will soon open in Naples.
In Italy, a new decree allows Ukrainian refugees who are healthcare professionals to work in hospitals or in private practices until March 2023, if they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
A young migrant dying from cancer had one last wish: To see his family in Ghana once more. So his village in Italy raised money for his flight. The Pope spoke of this story during his Sunday prayers.
Sangar and his wife Kanar left Iraqi Kurdistan in hopes of getting better medical care for their children. For months, the family was stuck at the Polish-Belarusian border desperate to reach the EU. This week, they finally arrived in Italy.