‘We’re witnesses to the horror of the world’: the one-of-a-kind Italian clinic treating refugees for trauma
Rome’s Samifo Centre helps asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced torture, persecution or violence
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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