MEP Vladimíra Marcinková (SaS) welcomes the decision of the Ministry of Health (MZ) of the Slovak Republic (MZ) of the Slovak Republic (SaS) to anchor the right of children to the presence of a accompanying person during hospitalization. It should be valid from September. He believes that the proposal will also be supported by Parliament. She appreciated that the Minister of Health Kamil Šaško (Voice-SD) did not only stay with the empty debate.
“I consider this very important because all studies say that it is the proximity of the parent or other close person in such a difficult and stressful situation, As hospitalization for a child patient or any examination, it reduces the stress factor, fear, nervousness of a foreign environment and has a positive effect on the child’s pain management. So The child bears better when he has a close person there when someone comforts him when someone helps him to handle a difficult situation, ” Marcinková stated at a press conference, saying that in 30 percent of separation from the parent in the case of hospitalizations there were severe post -traumatic states.
In her words, MEP discussed the topic for the last two months with representatives of hospitals, the Ministry of Health of the IS, and tried to find consensuswhich will move this issue forward and anchor the Slovak legal order to have an explicit right for every child patient to carry in a hospital accompanying a person.
The decision was reported on Tuesday by the Minister of Health. He explained that if the device does not have a parent accommodation capacity, he would have to provide at least a chair at the baby’s bed.
