A mobile medical unit donated by the Vatican tours Rome's peripheries, offering free health care to those in need.
A local volunteer association of doctors, health care professionals and medical students use the white and blue-striped RV-style vehicle, which carries Vatican City licence plates and the Holy See's coat of arms – two keys topped by a papal crown.
Dr Lucia Ercoli, director of the Istituto di Medicina Solidale, told the Vatican newspaper that using a medical unit with Vatican licence plates lets the migrants, "who live in truly inhumane conditions" in the forgotten corners of Rome, see and experience "the closeness of the Pope and the Church."
