Crete: 2 children forgotten in the hospital – They were removed from a problematic family environment

They met the toughest face of life from the people who were supposed to protect them. They were removed from their inappropriate or abusive family environments and they ended up, instead of a structure that would embrace them and help them stand on their own two feet, forgotten in a ward of the Pediatric Clinic of PAGNI.

Two children, teenagers, 15 and 14 years old, one from a troubled family environment and the other victim of rape by his mother’s partner in a hospital ward. One for about 40 days and another for 20. With the sadness that life has left on their faces and eyes. With the abandonment even by the state, by the institutions that undertook to protect them.

The lack of structures has led to a suffocating situation for the two boys. Doctors and nurses, hospital staff do everything humanly possible to make them feel better. But it’s not the experts who know how to reach out to children and help them heal their wounds.

Nor is the environment of a hospital suitable for the stay of these children. With the cries of the hospitalized children around, with the usual but difficult daily life of a hospital, where the movement of doctors, nurses, patients, attendants is uninterrupted. “Children can not sleep, they are burdened even more psychologically. It breaks our souls to see them here “she told ERT Heraklion while working at the hospital.

“It does not make sense for healthy children to remain in the hospital. It is not the right environment. Nor is the role of the hospital the care of children with social problems “, stated on his part the commander of PAGNI, George Chalkiadakis. The problem, as he clarified, is due to the lack of structures, with the result that, despite the repeated attacks on the Prosecutor’s Office, the children remain, without being ill, in the Pediatric Clinic.

Yesterday at noon, he arrived at the hospital prosecutor’s order to transport the older boy, who remains in the hospital from May 15, in a suitable structure, in Naples. Hoping that this will happen immediately, without further delay, the interest shifts to the 14-year-old, whose “Golgotha” moved the nation about 20 days ago, when he and his older brother reported their rape by their Syrian comrade of their mother. And, unfortunately, the path to a suitable structure is not short or smooth in its own case either.

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