You are the neighborhoods to swab

Rome, 22 April (beraking latest news Salute) – ‘I’ll take care of your tampon’. It is the initiative promoted by the Nonna Roma association and by the CGIL Public Function to give people in difficulty the possibility of having access to the quick swab for free. The tests will be carried out at Nonna Roma, an association active in the capital in the fight against poverty, thanks to the collaboration of the CGIL union that represents public service workers, which will support this project through qualified doctors and nurses.

“We have decided – underline the creators of the initiative in a joint note – to do our part to protect everyone’s right to health and help tracing cases through the administration of free quick swabs to the people we support. year from the beginning of the pandemic, the WHO also continues to focus on tests as an essential tool to detect positivity to Covid-19, but – they underline – despite the great effort of our Health System in carrying out swabs, the the most vulnerable part of our population. The pandemic has in fact given rise to new inequalities: those who are most disadvantaged from an economic and social point of view – say Nonna Roma and Fp Cgil – encounter more barriers to access to basic health care and services and hardly reaches the activities of tracing, isolation and treatment, thus risking to become a vehicle of infection even for al tri. These are many citizens, families in conditions of hardship, pensioners, migrants, homeless people, workers on layoffs and the unemployed who, tried by the economic crisis, cannot afford a tampon “.

The initiative ‘I’ll take care of your tampon’ was born with the idea that solidarity, in times of pandemics, is done with prevention, giving people in difficulty the possibility of having access to the rapid tampon for free. “We want public health – the organizers reiterate – to reach everyone and everyone, and if there are those who are excluded from essential health services, it is the duty of all of us to make available what we have for them. The swabs will be performed at Nonna Rome with licensed doctors and nurses “.

Where and when: via Palmiro Togliatti 979 every Sunday from 25 April to 30 May; Tor Bella Monaca district on 9 and 23 May; via Silvano 15 in Pietralata on 16 and 30 May; Testaccio district, on 2 May; Prati district on May 16; Primavalle district on May 16;

Those who need it, can book an appointment to undergo the test free of charge, by calling 327 3533781, from Monday to Friday from 10 to 14. You can also support the association and, if necessary, use the service and undergo a swab at the our offices, with an economic contribution starting from 10 euros.