The Nanterre hospital (Hauts-de-Seine) has just inaugurated a brand new service: the LAM (medical reception beds). The latter will allow homeless people suffering from serious pathologies, and who cannot live on the street, to find a place to sleep, reports The Parisian, Wednesday. Open 24 hours a day and throughout the year, the LAM will be managed by the hospital’s social medicine public health unit.
Twenty-four en-suite bedrooms
The service will benefit from 23 single rooms and one double room, all equipped with sanitary facilities and a bathroom. But also a team of doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, caregivers, social workers and specialized educators.
To access the rooms, you will have to go through a validation commission. Once accepted, the person will be followed by a social worker for the necessary time. The hospital center has decided not to ask for anything in exchange for these accommodations. Set up in collaboration with the Moisselles hospital (Val-d’Oise), the project should also serve as a recognized internship in the curriculum of future health professionals.
