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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Immigrants: according to experts, most are healthy, “just … – Web Weather
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Immigrants bring scabies? Enough with the syndrome of spreaders. “Most are young and are doing well.” Mario said Face, president of Simm (Societa ‘Italian of Medicine of Migration), which, in a statement, reports on the health status of immigrants, which in 2013 is estimated to have quadrupled over the previous year. “In recent months – said Face – there ‘was further growth. May 10 immigrants in general in our country were more ‘than 30 thousand; today, then in June, we got over 40 thousand. And ‘then increased the number of women and children, with Mali and Gambia in the first place to the second, and it’ in fact the port of Augusta, in this period, one that receives the most ‘migrants. ” For the president Simm, “their state of health and ‘good enough, also because’ it’s usually young boys. It ‘clear that much depends on the conditions in which the navigation takes place, but in general the health emergency landing and’ mostly linked ‘to diseases from physical agents: think of sunburn, heat stroke, frostbite “. Frequently they can also be bedsores due to forced position and no possibility ‘of movement on the boats, made worse by chemicals such as salt water or diesel fuel that often dirty places where the sailors passing through. “Among the diseases caused or aggravated by the condition of transport, then there ‘- he added Face – especially the dehydration that often cause serious kidney failure. Do not forget, finally, the condition of many refugees who land in a state of pregnancy, also advanced, or immediately after giving birth. And unfortunately it is not women who started their escape after conceiving, but victims of forced pregnancy, initiated as a result of rapes. With regard we have many testimonials from our patients, who have suffered rapes for long periods in detention in Libya, and for them the protection of mental health is fundamental. ” “Claims that the landings carry diseases (including tuberculosis and scabies) and cause a health risk – he continued – are absolutely instrumental, made specially in the field to give rise to the fear of difference, especially at election time. There ‘no scientific basis for regarding this issue. In Lampedusa there ‘was only one case of tuberculosis, but we doctors know very well it is a typical social disease, due to typical conditions of poverty’. Sure, and ‘normal conditions of the voyage before, during and after, could lead to a resurgence of tuberculosis, but more’ infectious disease that speak of social disease. For the rest, I repeat, these are mainly young boys who are good from the physical point of view. ” The operation “Mare Nostrum”, according to the expert, also provides surveillance from the point of view of health. “There is a specific control of hazards – he said – which could arise on the import of certain diseases, there are doctors on board and, in the case of illness of a certain gravity ‘, these people do not descend from the ship but are brought places fielded ad hoc by the Ministry. From this point of view, the surveillance system works well, and I do not understand ’cause the infectious disease should peddle the usual’ syndrome infector ‘, of Manzoni. I work in immigration since 1987, and this is’ an issue that periodically, and I would say stupidly, comes to light. “
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