Thursday, October 26, 2006

Bleeding From Viginia

AMP ... WHAT '?

The People's Medical Clinic (AMP) is a legally recognized self-governing and self-financed. Since 1994, located in Via dei Transiti 28 (Milan), where space is renovated and equipped through a broad campaign of public subscription that returned to local utility has long abandoned. The AMP offers free medical visits, information about rights to health and the rights of migrants recorded more than 3,000 people received anonymous (for all those who turn out to PMI is a folder with its card registration : For this procedure does not require the presentation of any document) without required documents and about 15,000 performances. The AMP affects two forms of living the city by promoting a new local welfare: providing basic medical office and facilitating access to specialist medical examinations in associations (NAGA, San Francisco Opera), consultants and clinics with which is in the urban area of \u200b\u200bMilan, a network that provides medical services to those who can not access the National Health System. In addition, AMP helps migrants without a residence permit to exercise the right of access to hospital services for emergencies or serious illnesses, as provided by law (Ministry of Health - Circular No 5 of 24.3.2000) that always applies (To strengthen the commitment to defending the right to health AMP joined the European Network of Health Right and brought his experience to the European Social Forum (Florence, 2002 and Athens 2006). Sharing spaces a district that registers a high presence of migrants, the AMP has become a landmark and meeting place, thanks to their activities, with snacks of self-organized twice a month and initiatives for discussion and debate on social policies and labor markets, which led the AMP part of the network of collective who denounce the insecurity in the world of work.

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