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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam

‘We’re witnesses to the horror of the world’: the one-of-a-kind Italian clinic treating refugees for trauma

A man with curly blond hair wearing glasses, a surgical mask and a disposable coverall leans over a woman holding an infant.
The centre’s director, Dr Giancarlo Santone, right, sees a patient. Photograph: LaPresse/Alamy

Tucked away in a tangle of streets around Rome’s Termini station is a clinic that sharply contrasts with the hardline, anti-migrant stance of Italian politicians.

The Samifo Centre is described by the people behind it as Europe’s – and perhaps the world’s – only publicly funded service aimed at treating post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma among asylum seekers and refugees.

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