EUROPE/ITALY - “Train doctors and nurses in health-care as well as sociological and cultural subjects” this is the aim of a Masters in Medical Care for Migrants and Refugees, Homeless people and Poor people

Rome (Fides Service) - More than one billion people in the world do not receive proper medical treatment. To try to improve the situation and call public opinion’s attention to the fact, the School of Solidarity of the Arch-Confraternity of St Anthony of Padua, Caritas Rome, the Inter-department Centre for research on Leprosy and the Tropical Dermatology centre in Genoa are promoting a special course in Italy on the theme of medical and social-sanitary aspects of assistance to marginalised persons and people suffering form social trauma in general. The aim is to train doctors and nurses in health care as well as sociological and cultural subjects.
One main aim is to create future health care directors who are aware of the needs of marginalised people. The Masters is open to doctors, nurses and hospital directors. It last two years and offers the following: propaedeutic course on human and social sciences and three courses in special areas: medical care for migrants and refugees; medical care in tropical and developing countries, medical care for the homeless.
The specific path of this Masters formation is a response to the call for a “supplement of soul” often called for by Pope John Paul II in the field of health care. (AP) (1/3/2004 Agenzia Fides; Righe:22; Parole:238)