EU sets up medical evacuation center for Ukrainian refugees in Poland
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.
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Germany threatens to deport Vietnamese man after 35 years
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.
Afghan awarded by Italian president dies at age 20
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.
Ukraine: MSF Italy provides psychological assistance to refugees
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.
Ukrainian doctors, nurses will be allowed to work in Italy
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.
Italy: Village pays for migrant dying of cancer to return to family
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.
'We decided to leave everything to get to a country with adequate hospitals'
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.
Anthony's story: 'I suffered in Africa and I'm coming to suffer here again'
Anthony from Liberia has spent the past seven months in a reception center for asylum seekers in the town of Eisenhüttenstadt in east Germany, near the Polish border. This is his story.
Migrant child dies in Lithuania after heart and lung problems
A child living in a migrant shelter in Lithuania has died. The 11-year old, which had pre-existing conditions, had crossed the border from Belarus two months ago together with her father.
Migrant women in Rome: Doctors Without Borders provides healthcare services
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is working with local health authorities in eastern Rome to provide medical assistance to marginalized women. Services include pregnancy check-ups, cancer screenings and support for victims of gender-based violence and genital mutilation.
Oulx, a town at 'the crossroads of migration to France'
The town of Oulx, situated near the Italian-French border in Italy's Alta Valle di Susa, has continued to represent an "important crossroads of two migration flows directed to France," the organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) said in a report on the situation at the northwestern border of the Alps released on July 9.
Canary Islands: Girl dies after 17 days drifting in migrant boat
A young girl has died during a rescue operation to save migrants trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands in a small boat. The boat, carrying 36 migrants, drifted for more than two weeks before it was found by a merchant tanker.