More than six months ago we told you in Babies and more than finally the parents were going to be able, in Spain, to stay with the babies and children admitted to the pediatric ICUs, because it was going to be approved within the Childhood and Adolescence Plan, in a As of course he arrived many years late, if we take into account that being able to be with children is a children's right and that, these rights, date from 1986.
Well, it is already known that palace things are going slowly, and to show a button: The Hospital de León only allows children admitted to the ICU to visit one hour a day. But this is not only the problem, it is that there is not even a room where family members can remain waiting to be able to enter, or simply being there in case there is any news. Come on, that or are you inside with your child at the time of visit, Or you go to your house.
This has been known through a petition in Change, where it is no longer even requested to extend the visiting hours of children to a more open operation, but, please, enable an area to wait. A miserable waiting room.
The request is made to help the mother of a girl who suffered a 20-minute cardiorespiratory arrest in December, remaining admitted to the pediatric ICU with very little hope that she can live. The mother explains it clearly and concisely:
I only ask for a room to be while my child is torn between life and death.
And, as we say, there is no space where parents can stay waiting outside the unit, in case there is news about the health of children.
Apparently, parents have repeatedly requested the authorization of a space for them. However, this space does not exist yet and from the unit what is done is Invite parents to go home.
But when you have your daughter in that situation, the last thing you want to do is go home. You want to do everything possible for her, and although being there, in a room, it really does not differ too much as far as the forecast is concerned, it is not the same to receive good or bad news a few meters from your girl, than to receive it at home .
Surely everyone, as parents, understands these words and understands this mother. It's unfortunate that they don't let you in, but if they don't let you, it's unfortunate that don't have a place to stay waiting, since the parents are now in a place of passage, at the exit of an elevator. In mom's words:
The only thing I ask for is a decent space where I can be crying without anyone looking at me at the exit of the elevator. It is hard enough to suffer the death of a child to, for the elderly, to feel sorry for it. A hallway. I am in a hallway. It seems to me something inhuman.
And he's absolutely right, but the inhuman thing is not the difference between being in a hallway or in a waiting room, the inhuman thing is to have a daughter who is closer to death than to life and not being able to sit next to her, shaking hands, 24 hours a day. That is the inhuman.
