"The origin of endemic tropical diseases is not due to the arrival of immigrants, but tourists and donors that are immune to them. This is the conclusion of José López Guzmán, an expert in bioethics at the University of Navarra, during the closing ceremony on Foreign Health conducted by the College of Pharmacists Huelva. "You have to undo some topics: there seems to be true that immigrants pose a health risk, since many of those who come are young and healthy," said the pharmacist, as recorded by the digital medical journal Janus . Lopez Guzman agrees with the view of all the specialists who come to the health problems of immigrants in Spain. Some serious problems not only for the rest of the population (Chagas, some skin diseases) are imported by foreigners. As stressed Rogelio Lopez-Velez, Tropical Medicine Unit of Hospital Ramón y Cajal de Madrid, rather they are victims of diseases here. They usually have hard lives, physically and emotionally, making them more vulnerable to AIDS, nutritional and psychiatric problems.
As for the challenges of pharmaceutical care with the arrival of immigrants, López Guzmán indicated that these are mainly related to drugs and health products defendants, in addition to linguistic and cultural differences.
Thus there must be a "genuine dialogue" between immigrants and pharmacists, who first come when they have a health problem of accessibility to primary care physician. This need for a new approach is neither new nor unique to pharmaceuticals. Recently, for example, a group of European and African dermatologists published a book for the English specialists could treat blacks. In a field where the visual assessment of the lesions is an important part of the first diagnosis, different skin colors can be misleading. "
Emilio Benito (published in newspaper El Pais , 05/02/2009)
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