The Red Cross will give a health card to the migrants it receives in consultation in Ile-de-France, in order to offer them simpler and more effective care.
In order to facilitate and optimize the medical care of migrants, the French Red Cross has decided to develop a health follow-up book that it will now give to all those it receives during itinerant nursing consultations in Ile-de-France. -of France.
In a press release published on Monday, the Red Cross indicates that, as of today, during each of the nursing consultations carried out by the mobile team with migrants living in accommodation centers, gymnasiums and hotels in the departments of Ile-de-France ( outside Paris), a health logbook, translated into English and Arabic, will be given to each patient.
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This notebook, which they did not have until now, will now allow them to offer them continuity of medical care. Migrants will thus be able to be referred more quickly to the most suitable care structures. Translated into languages they understand, it will also facilitate the sometimes difficult exchange during medical consultations.
Finally, thanks to this document, which is strictly personal and confidential, healthcare professionals will have all the information they need (family history, surgery, medicine, allergies and illnesses) to monitor a patient. “This is the first time that health cards will be distributed to migrants. Until now, when they left the consultations, they were given a kind of A4 sheet, which often got lost. This notebook is a public health document, which will make it possible to offer migrants simpler and more effective medical care ”, explained to Agence France-Presse (AFP) the national health delegate of the French Red Cross. Jacques Touzard, at the origin of the project.
The delivery of health monitoring cards will be carried out in the 46 accommodation centers installed to date in Ile-de-France, 10 of which are managed directly by the French Red Cross. “In the longer term, the initiative should be extended to the whole of French territory and overseas, particularly in Mayotte and Guyana,” concludes the humanitarian aid association.
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