A help desk for migrants with blood diseases

An integration service social and health care for migrants affected by haematological diseases is was activated by AIL (Italian Association against leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma) in Foggia, the first location in Italy. Available for a few weeks now, it offers a service of social health consultancy for migrant citizens from all over the world province of Foggia who can access the service through a daily service desk to turn to, after prior telephone contact with the office, to be guided in the whole process through the availability of mediators cultural. The president of Ail Foggia Celestino reports the news Ferrandina on the occasion of the national day of the association that is celebrated today. "It represents a unique event in the national panorama also for the social consequences in a territory, that of the province of Foggia, where it is concentrated a large number of foreign citizens - the president underlines by Ail - We did it by imagining the difficulties of the migrant citizens not only from a purely economic perspective health care when receiving a diagnosis of illness haematological, especially considering the difficulties in accessing health services". The new service will be presented during of the meeting scheduled at Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza in San Giovanni Rotondo (Foggia) Thursday 26 June when, in a meeting organized at national level by Ail, which has always engaged in scientific research, the new will be discussed therapy to fight hematological diseases called CAR-T which "represent - they say from the San Pio hospital - the great innovation that is changing the therapeutic scenarios in fight against blood cancers".