CAT/OP/ITA/1/Add.1
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138. The health-care staff of the Offices of Maritime, Air, and Border Health-Care
(USMAF) consists of both women and men. Depending on the availability, personnel of
both sexes, is employed in health-care control activities, which have nothing to do with
identification and border control-related activities: the latter falls within the competence of
other administrations and authorities.
139. The USMAF does not include cultural and linguistic mediators. However, these
professionals work in the Centers for migrants.
140. As for health-care assistance to be provided to migrants, it is worthy of mention that
the Interior Ministry, with the technical contribution of the Ministry of Health, issued a
Regulation on the criteria for the management of the Centers for Immigration (CIE). The
latter also contains sections devoted to the establishment of health-care conditions and
medical care of those migrants housed in the Immigration Centers (Decree of the Ministry
of Interior, dated October 20, 2014).
141. When, during USMAF assessments, health-care problems and specific
vulnerabilities emerge, migrants, upon agreement with the local health-care services (ASL),
will be sent to appropriate health-care facilities.
142. With regard to the identification of vulnerable groups, mention has to be made of the
technical WG at Directorate General of Prevention at the Ministry of Health that is tasked
with preparing the above-mentioned "Guidelines” on the assistance to migrants, victims of
torture - to be implemented within the financial resources available under the legislation in
force (based on Article 27, paragraph 1 bis of Legislative Decree No.251/2007, as amended
by Article 1 of Legislative Decree No.18/2014). This Technical WG involves other
Directorates-General of the Ministry of Health, the National Institute for the Promotion of
the Health of Migrant Populations (NIHMP), the Interior Ministry, the regional
representatives with expertise in the field of socio-health-care programming attributed to
the Regions by Article 117 of the Constitution, the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, representatives of NGOs with qualified experience in the subject areas concerned
(including on the reception of refugees and the rehabilitation of torture victims), as well as
NGOs accredited to take care of the promotion of children's rights and their health-care
(including the creation of special reception pathways for women and minors).
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143. It should be noted that children have not been held at the Hotspot but regularly
entrusted to the City of Pozzallo, that has temporarily hosted them pending detection of a
suitable accommodation.
144. In the current year, given the extension of their stay in the local Hotspot, minors are
provided with a regular pass and can freely move outside.
145. Against this background, in order to limit, even on a provisional basis, the children’s
presence at the Hotspot, the Prefecture concerned has identified and indicated to the City of
Pozzallo (as a safe place for temporary accommodation of minors) a structure of 40 places,
within a project, called "Mediterranean Hope" of the Italian Federation of Evangelical
Churches (financed with resources from 8 per thousand taxes devolution to the Waldensian
Church), and sought other solutions by identifying another structure (48 more places) of the
Roman Catholic Church, to be made available soon.
146. Above all, the Catholic Church has identified a structure owned by the Region of
Sicily, granted for use to the Prefecture of Ragusa for the construction of a first reception
center supporting the Hotspot in Pozzallo, with a capacity of 150 places and green areas
suitable for recreational activities, to be destined to temporarily accommodate
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