On Thursday, MPs sitting on the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs took up the issue. The authors of the petition demand that the right to 24-hour accompaniment of a child in an intensive care unit be respected. They point out that at the moment the parents' "access" to the child is regulated on a discretionary basis, the decision being made by those in charge of the ward on unclear and questionable grounds. The result? There are hospitals where a parent can stay with the child all day (though not likely at night), as well as those where time is limited to 3.5 hours a day.
Maria Cichulska, one of the co-authors of the petition, a doctor,...
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