CAT/OP/ITA/1/Add.1 Paras. 61 - 65 138. 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). Para.71 143. 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 26