Palestinian diaspora: respecting all cultures from the early age
[Episode 81]
Being a pediatrician in Italy can mean a lot of professional satisfaction as well as continuous choices to be taken in order to be helpful to parents in need of alla nationalities, without breaking the law. As a matter of fact in order to apply for the right to have their children cured all foreigners must prove a residence permit, whose possession is harder and harder to get due to restriction laws made by the Italian government in the last Security Act. “This is an important issue, Italian National Healt Care system and foreign families.” -says Mustafà Qaddourah Rashid, Palestinian doctor born in Harrambla and working in Rome. “Many of them are afraid to come visit a doctor because they don’t have a residence permit, they are not “officially” legal. Many get addressed to me right after their arrival in Rome; they come to me and ask for help and I do my best to support them but off course I cannot go against the law, I have to work in the legal field.”
