WHAT IS ITHACA?

Information on the prevailing medical and social situation in their countries of origin is essential for seriously sick patients. They may have to consider either a safe return to their home country, or apply for a prolongation or authorization of stay if the treatment and medical care they need is unavailable or inaccessible in their country of origin.

It is crucial that this information be current, precise and impartial, so that decisions on these voluntary returns or requests for prolongation or authorization of stay are taken in full knowledge of the facts.

This site aims to go some way to providing this information, by gathering various sources of information and by extracting and clarifying the relevant subject matter contained in published documents, and the law and jurisprudence covering the subject.