Friday, February 12, 2010

35 days of continuous medical, sanitary and Psychosocial support of Roma population living in a collective center in a former military base in Rrenc



Since January 7, after the request of Minister of Health , MNSH took over the complete medical and sanitary service of this collective center , where around 200 roma people are living since January 5. Two medical teams compound by nurses and medical doctors (general practitioners and specialist doctors) are present six to seven hours per day at the center offering their service to everyone who needs. Medical visits, Medicaments , medical consults to hospital, medical analyses are all covered by MNSH. An Malteesr ambulance car and a emergency medical doctor provides 24-hour on call service.

Besides medical teams , another psychosocial team compound by social workers and psychologists, MNSH volunteers, continues to support the roma people in this collective center
The emotional wounds may be less visible than the destruction of homes and physical infrastructure, but it often takes far longer to recover from the emotional and psychological impact than to overcome the material losses.

MNSH, supported by Malteser Hilfsdients Germany and Malteser Hospitaldienst Austria, will run these services until the roma population will leave this center. At this step civil protection teams of MNSH will support them to rebuild their houses.