Responses to the frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Section about the non-EU
immigrant’s right to health
Who is entitled to be recorded in the National Health Service?
Case of non-EU
immigrant’s who asks a residence permit
for medical treatments.
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
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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.
Health card which is valid for the period corresponding to the duration of the residence permit.
Access to all the Services of the National Health Service the same way and on the same conditions as the Italian citizens.
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.
All the non-EU immigrants who are not in conformity to the sanitary assistance, to whom they issue a health card which is valid for one year and only for the preventive assistance and the protection of the maternity and the childbearing.
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 – 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)