Today is a special day to think about all those children who unfortunately are fighting against some disease and are admitted. Today, May 13, is the Hospitalized Children's Day, a situation not pleasant for the child and his family, but that together we can make it more bearable.
Humanize hospital care is essential For patients, especially when it comes to young children, some with long stays due to prolonged illnesses or premature babies who have arrived in the world too soon and need to be accompanied for 24 hours.
Rights of the hospitalized child
The organizations chose on May 13 to establish the National Hospitalized Children's Day because a day like that, in 1986, the resolution of the Charter of the Rights of the Hospitalized Child by the European Parliament to establish and reinforce the idea that the right to the best possible medical care constitutes a fundamental right, especially for the first years of its development.
The child has the right:
Not to be hospitalized except in the case that you cannot receive the necessary care at home or in an outpatient clinic.
At day hospitalization, without this entailing an additional burden on parents.
To be accompanied by his parents or of the person who replaces them as long as possible during their stay in the hospital, without impeding the application of the necessary treatments for the child.
To receive information adapted to their age, their mental development and their emotional and psychological state.
To an individual reception and follow-up, the same nurses and assistants being assigned as much as possible for such reception and the necessary care.
To refuse (through the mouth of their parents or the person who replaces them) to be subject to investigation, and to refuse any care or examination whose primary purpose is educational or informative and not therapeutic.
Right of his parents or of the person who substitutes them to receive all the information related to the illness and the well-being of the child, as long as his right to respect his privacy is not affected by it.
Right of the parents or the person replacing them with express your agreement with the treatments They apply to the child.
Right of the parents or the person who substitutes them for an adequate reception and their psychosocial follow-up by personnel with specialized training.
Not to be subjected to pharmacological or therapeutic experiences. Only the parents or the person who replaces them will have the possibility to grant their authorization as well as withdraw it.
Right of the child, when subjected to therapeutic experimentation, to be protected by the Helsinki declaration of the World Medical Assembly and its subsequent actions.
TO not receiving useless medical treatments and not to endure physical and moral sufferings that can be avoided.
Right and means of contacting their parents or the person who replaces them in times of tension.
To be treated with tact, education and understanding and to have their privacy respected.
To receive the care provided by a qualified staff, who knows the needs of each age group in the physical and emotional plane.
To be hospitalized with other children, avoiding hospitalization among adults as much as possible.
To have furnished and equipped premises, so that they meet your needs in terms of care, education and games, as well as official safety regulations.
To continue their school training and to benefit from the teachings of the teachers and the teaching material that the school authorities make available to them on condition that such activity does not cause damage to their well-being and / or does not impede the treatments that are followed.
To have appropriate toys for their age, books and audiovisual media.
To be able to receive studies in case of partial hospitalization or convalescence in your own home.
To the security of receiving the care you need, even if the intervention of justice is necessary if the parents or the person who replaces them are denied them for religious reasons, cultural delay, prejudice, or are not in conditions to take the appropriate steps to deal with the urgency.
To the necessary economic, moral and psychosocial help to be subjected to examinations and / or treatments that must be carried out abroad.
