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The Italian media provide details of the refugee housing in Albania: How the accommodation will be done, what happens if they leave the camp

Politiko 2024-03-25 10:49:47

The Italian media provide details of the refugee housing in Albania: How the

The Italian Ministry of the Interior has published the tender for the management of three reception facilities for immigrants that will be opened in Albania, after the agreement signed between the Italian and Albanian governments at the beginning of November.

According to the Italian media , it is a negotiation procedure, i.e. a tender with which the state already identifies the suitable organizations to manage the structures, which are required to present an offer until March 28. The deadlines are obviously tight because of the opening date: the government wants to open the facilities by May 20.

The three structures will be able to accommodate a little more than a thousand people at the same time and among them there can be no minors, pregnant women and other people considered vulnerable. One of the three structures will be built near the port of Shengjin, about 70 kilometers north of Tirana, where the landing and identification procedures must be carried out.

The other two will be located in Gjadër. One center will be dedicated to ascertaining the prerequisites for the recognition of international protection and will be able to accommodate a maximum of 880 people, while the second structure is actually a repatriation detention center (CPR) with a maximum capacity of 144 people.

In the Italian government's intentions in Albania, the people rescued by the Italian authorities involved in maritime rescue should end up: basically the coast guard, the financial police or the navy. So not people rescued by NGOs (it is not clear why this distinction was made).

The value of the contract is just under 34 million euros, to which must be added reimbursements for transport services, municipal services, waste collection, ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, Wi-Fi connection, health care. Reimbursement for these services has not yet been determined.

According to the content of the tender, which follows that of other host tenders published in the past, the facility in the port of Shengjin will have a medical clinic dedicated to health care, a room for outpatient visits, a room with three beds and an isolation . double room. In Gjadër, however, there will be three rooms for outpatient visits, two rooms with three beds, an operating room, an analysis laboratory, a room with X-ray and ultrasound instruments, a room for psychological and psychiatric visits. A team of doctors must work within this structure 24 hours a day: a doctor specialized in anesthesia and resuscitation, a doctor specialized in general surgery, a doctor specialized in orthopedics with surgical skills, a medical staff specialized in psychiatry, an instrumental nurse, a social doctor. and health worker, a laboratory technician, a radiology technician, a health worker specialized in radiology.

Among the attachments to the notice are details of the welcome kits made available to persons welcomed to the premises. Pants, one undershirt, one top, one pajama, three shorts and three pairs of socks will be provided. Only a difference between summer and winter is expected. Guests will have one roll of toilet paper per week, one toothbrush per month, one tube of 100ml toothpaste per month, one bottle of shampoo and one bottle of liquid soap per week, a comb.

As in other reception centers, compliance checks on supplies are the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior: in many cases those running the reception centers do not comply with the criteria indicated in the notices, but ministerial checks are random.

During the period of stay in Albania, immigrants will not be able to leave the centers: if they do, they will be returned by the Albanian authorities. However, the centers will be able to access lawyers, representatives of international organizations and the European Union, who aim to provide legal assistance to asylum seekers, as required by Italian, Albanian and European laws.

Already in the signing of the agreement between the Italian and Albanian governments, many problems related to the respect of international and European law in the management of immigrants had come to the fore. Last November, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, said the deal did not break EU law, "because it is outside of it". The Commission essentially said it has no responsibility for migrant rescues that occur outside its territory: the point, however, is that the agreement is not limited to rescues that occurred outside Italian territorial waters, but concerns migrants rescued by Italians. authorities, i.e. from the Coast Guard, the Financial Police or the Navy: they are all bodies that operate almost exclusively in Italian territorial waters, with the exception of very rare cases in which it is necessary to go further to save people in dangerous situations inevitable.