Sanitary assistance for non-EU immigrants (law nr. 40 dated 6.3.1998)

Non-EU immigrants who have a regular residence permit and are recorded in the Italian National Health Service.
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Non-EU immigrants who do not have a regular residence permit and do not comply with the rules  related to the entrance and the stay in our Country.
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Sanitary assistance for non-EU immigrants (law nr. 40 dated 6.3.1998)

Non-EU immigrants who have a regular residence permit and are recorded in the National Health Service

Entitled to be recorded in the National Health Service.

Non-EU immigrants who have a regular residence permit, who are currently employed (subordinate employees or self-employed workers) or have registered themselves as unemployed or have a residence permit issued for

  • Request for asylum
  • Adoption
  • Humanitarian asylum
  • Family reasons
  • Political asylum
  • Request for Italian citizenship
  • Probation
  • Health reasons

 

Non-EU immigrants who have a regular residence permit for reasons different form those given above, but who have a residence permit which is valid for more than three months and are voluntarily recorded in the National Health Service with transfer of contribution.

Document issued

Health card which is valid for the period corresponding to the duration of the residence permit.

Health services they are entitled to

Access to all the Services of the National Health Service the same way and on the same conditions as the Italian citizens.

Particular cases

Non-EU immigrant who asks a residence permit for medical treatments

The transfer to Italy, due to medical treatments, is allowed within humanitarian programmes authorised by the Ministry of Health in agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or within humanitarian intervention programmes authorised by the Region Veneto.

 

The non-EU immigrant, who cannot be included in these programmes, in order to get the visa, has to send in a statement, to his/her Embassy, from the Italian medical facility in which he/she intends to be cured, where it must be indicated the treatment he/she will have, the date when the treatment will take place and the presumable duration of the cure. The non-EU immigrant has, furthermore, to attest that he/she has paid the guarantee deposit equal to the 30% of the presumable total amount for the medical treatments requested.

 

Useful links

ULSS (Local Social Health Unit) nr. 20

Hospital in Verona

Region Veneto – Management for the Preventive Measure

Region Veneto

CESTIM Verona

Foreign people in Italy

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Health Institute

 

Sanitary assistance for non-EU immigrants (law nr. 40 dated 6.3.1998)

Non-EU immigrants who do not have a regular residence permit and do not comply with the rules related to the entrance and the stay in our Country.

Entitled to be recorded in the National Health Service

All the non-EU immigrants who are not in conformity to the sanitary assistance.

Document issued

Health card which is valid for one year and only for the preventive assistance and the protection of the maternity and the childbearing.

Health services they are entitled to

Outpatient treatments and hospitalisations related to interventions of social protection of the maternity and the childbearing.

International prophylaxis treatments.

Prophylaxis treatments, diagnosis and cure for contagious diseases and eventual decontamination of focuses, in particular TB and MST (Sexually Transmissible Diseases).

Vaccinations, according to the regional regulations in force.

Interventions directed to protect the minors’ health, according to the Agreement about the minors’ rights undersigned on 20.11.1989 in New York.

Emergency hospitalisations or, anyhow, hospitalisations that cannot be deferred, also of continuative kind.

Granting facilities (according to the operating protocol ULSS nr. 20)

Outpatient’s department “CESAIM” – Via Golfino – open in the afternoons Monday to Friday.

Social Health District nr. 1 – Via Poloni Verona – and Social Health District nr. 7 – San Bonifacio – for “Health Card”.

Ambulatory of the Department for Preventive Measure of the Building of the Health Board, for X-rays of the chest or laboratory examinations.

Social Health District nr. 1 – Via Poloni Verona – for tuberculine test, vaccinations and people who have to see a specialist.

Family advice bureau, for childbirth preparation course, controls and IVG (Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy).

Wards and outpatient’s departments “USL” (Local Health Unit) and Hospital in Verona (Contagious Diseases, Paediatrics, Pneumology, Dermatology, Gynaecology and Obstetrics).

Useful links

ULSS (Local Social Health Unit) nr. 20

Hospital in Verona

Region Veneto – Management for the Preventive Measure