The first totally free nursing clinic available to those who need care but do not have a general practitioner or health card, and live dramatically on the margins of society, has been set up on the outskirts of Milan. Making it happen is the "Ali di Leonardo" association founded by Maria Gabriella Scrimieri, a nurse who has always been involved in volunteer work. In an apartment on Molise Street, the heart of the neighborhood of the same name, volunteer nurses do everything or almost everything: they care for the chronically ill, people with psychiatric disorders, diabetics. Activities range from blood pressure to blood sugar measurements. There is always constant contact with medical professionals, in the most serious cases or in any case within their competence. The project is certainly not destined to be an isolated case: the first outpatient nursing clinic on Molise Street, which now has 135 patients from the Calvairate-Molise-Ponti neighborhood housing projects, will soon be followed by a second one. In fact, in September the Ali di Leonardo association confirms that it will inaugurate the new outpatient clinic in the Ponte Lambro housing projects.
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