Enrolment for the Lawful, Urgent and Essential Care for Everyone Else
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Nicaragua on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
98 exceptions recorded across 37 countries · none match Nicaragua to Italy · Access to healthcare
Italy splits health care in two and writes both halves into the immigration Act. Foreigners lawfully staying who work, are self-employed or are registered as seeking work must enrol in the National Health Service, and so must those holding or renewing a permit for work, family, asylum, subsidiary protection, special cases, special protection, medical treatment, an asylum claim, pending adoption, fostering or the acquisition of citizenship - and unaccompanied foreign minors, even before a permit is issued. Enrolment carries equal treatment with Italian citizens. For foreigners present without lawful status, article 35 guarantees urgent or in any case essential outpatient and hospital care, continuing care included, at public and accredited facilities, and extends preventive medicine programmes to them.
At a glance
- Who must enrol
- Lawfully staying foreigners who work or are registered as seeking work
- What enrolment gives
- Equal treatment with Italian citizens
- Unaccompanied minors
- Enrolled even while the permit is pending
- Without lawful status
- Urgent or essential care, including continuing care
Article 35(3), at public and accredited facilities.
- Preventive medicine
- Extended to them as well
- Everyone else not enrolled
- Charged at the tariffs the regions set
Article 35(1).
Requirements
- For enrolment: lawful stay of one of the kinds article 34 lists
- For care under article 35: presence in the territory
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Nicaragua
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Hanno l'obbligo di iscrizione al Servizio sanitario nazionale e hanno parita' di trattamento e piena uguaglianza di diritti e doveri rispetto ai cittadini italiani per quanto attiene all'obbligo contributivo, all'assistenza erogata in Italia dal Servizio sanitario nazionale e alla sua validita' temporale: a) gli stranieri regolarmente soggiornanti che abbiano in corso regolari attivita' di lavoro subordinato o di lavoro autonomo o siano iscritti nelle liste di collocamento; b) gli stranieri regolarmente soggiornanti o che abbiano chiesto il rinnovo del titolo di soggiorno, per lavoro subordinato, per lavoro autonomo, per motivi familiari, per asilo, per protezione sussidiaria, per casi speciali, per protezione speciale, per cure mediche ai sensi dell'articolo 19, comma 2, lettera d-bis), per richiesta di asilo, per attesa adozione, per affidamento, per acquisto della cittadinanza. b-bis) i minori stranieri non accompagnati, anche nelle more del rilascio del permesso di soggiorno, a seguito delle segnalazioni di legge dopo il loro ritrovamento nel territorio nazionale.»Who is enrolled, and that enrolment is an obligation rather than an option. The list is long because it is written by permit type.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It gives the text and not its interpretation. Article 3-bis reads clearly and has still generated years of litigation over what it means, which is why the Constitutional Court is watched alongside it. A consolidated text can also lag a very recent amendment.
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«Per le prestazioni sanitarie erogate ai cittadini stranieri non iscritti al Servizio sanitario nazionale devono essere corrisposte, dai soggetti tenuti al pagamento di tali prestazioni, le tariffe determinate dalle regioni e province autonome ai sensi dell' articolo 8, commi 5 e 7, del decreto legislativo 30 dicembre 1992, n. 502 , e successive modificazioni. 2. Restano salve le norme che disciplinano l'assistenza sanitaria ai cittadini stranieri in Italia in base a trattati e accordi internazionali bilaterali o multilaterali di reciprocita' sottoscritti dall'Italia. 3. Ai cittadini stranieri presenti sul territorio nazionale, non in regola con le norme relative all'ingresso ed al soggiorno, sono assicurate, nei presidi pubblici ed accreditati, le cure ambulatoriali ed ospedaliere urgenti o comunque essenziali, ancorche' continuative, per malattia ed infortunio e sono estesi i programmi di medicina preventiva a salvaguardia della salute individuale e collettiva.»The tariff for the unenrolled, and the guarantee for people with no status at all. "Urgenti o comunque essenziali" is the phrase that does the work.
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The Italian state's portal for legislation in force. It shows each article as currently amended, with an explicit testo in vigore dal date, and links the amending instruments.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It gives the text and not its interpretation. Article 3-bis reads clearly and has still generated years of litigation over what it means, which is why the Constitutional Court is watched alongside it. A consolidated text can also lag a very recent amendment.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
Practical notes
Italy's health service is run by the regions and what a card costs, and how fast it is issued, is theirs. This record is the state law that says who is entitled.
Article 35(2) preserves whatever bilateral or multilateral reciprocity treaties Italy has signed, and none of those is read here.
- consolidatesTesto unico sull'immigrazione, articoli 34 e 35
Normattiva, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
About this source
The Italian state's portal for legislation in force. It shows each article as currently amended, with an explicit testo in vigore dal date, and links the amending instruments.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It gives the text and not its interpretation. Article 3-bis reads clearly and has still generated years of litigation over what it means, which is why the Constitutional Court is watched alongside it. A consolidated text can also lag a very recent amendment.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source