“We have over 100,000 that arrived in Italy this year,” Francesca Basile, head of the Migration Unit of the Italian Red Cross, told Rudaw’s Zinar Shino on Tuesday, adding that most of the new arrivals are from the African countries.
“Here today there are more than 2,000 people inside the hospital,” she noted, reporting more arrivals on the Italian island of Lampedusa.“ During these massive arrivals, as the Italian Red Cross, we applied all the emergency protocols to ensure the first assistance to people, even if the capacity is lower.”
She said the new arrivals will receive necessary needs such as food, clothes and hygiene tools.
There has been an influx of migrants to Lampedusa in recent weeks, with thousands of new people arriving on the island.
This has prompted the local authorities to warn that the island is becoming overwhelmed.
Italy is set to pass stricter laws to extend the length of time the migrants can be held before being repatriated to their countries.
