The project is based on the need in the community to access qualitative medical services at low prices or free of charge, due to financial deficiencies that are characteristic of socially vulnerable people: the elderly, people with disabilities, the unemployed, children, the sick, etc.
Located in the West of the Capital, with a surface area of 38 km_, equivalent to 3,700 hectares and with a population of nearly 390,000 inhabitants, 6th District is the second largest District in Bucharest.
After a wave of young beneficiaries, working with various illnesses, asking for social assistance at the 6th District General Direction for Social Care and Child Protection and many elderly people requesting home care and support, we asked the question : how good is the health of the population in 6th District? The answer to this question was based on studies carried out on samples of vulnerable groups in the community and it turned out that the health of the population is closely related to the level of family income and to the level of education.
Problems in the health system are always linked to large queues and dissatisfied patients because they were unable to get diagnostic services or the drugs they needed. They often complain about being humiliated when dealing with the health sector – there are few alternatives within the system, and providers often do not make any effort to be attractive or to meet the users.
There is a big problem with access to health services, especially for the poor. Many poor people requiring medical services do not resort to them because most poor people are not even aware of the need they have to access healthcare.
Community poverty has a peripheral character, being located at the borders of large cities. Areas of community poverty focus on an important share of poor populations on the outskirts of cities, people living here with low access to jobs, education, culture or health care, being at risk of social exclusion.
The project The Multifunctional Health Center “Sfantul Nectarie” proposes the social inclusion of disadvantaged people from the 6th District community.
Social exclusion is the placement of a person out of normal forms of social life as a result of multiple deprivations with low chances of reinsertion into a normal social life. The result of discrimination, lack of opportunities, accumulation of deprivation, degradation or non-development of normal social functioning or of an individual or collective marginalization life style.
Social marginalization is a term used mainly with the same content as social exclusion, referring to the position of some people / groups outside (on the “margin”) of the social, “normal” social life of the community.
Social inclusion is the process of reinsertion into normal life forms, in a normal social functioning of people in a situation of social exclusion / marginalization or risk of marginalization, capacity building and opportunity provision.