It should not be news because it was more than a year ago that it was decided that the pediatric ICUs of the hospitals in Spain would be open 24 hours, however it is already known that since something is approved until it is carried out it can take weeks or months, and this results in some hospitals even screeching in this regard, such as the Hospital de León, which was news in February of this year because it only allowed the family to enter the ICU one hour a day.
It should not be news, as I say, but it is and also good news because it shows that the future is going around and that, little by little, other hospitals will be assuming the same policy and children, finally, can spend all the time That is necessary with your family. I speak of Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona, which has opened the pediatric ICU for a few weeks now, 24 hours a day.
A good example of hospital
I live in a city near Barcelona and who else, who less, knows of a case of a boy or girl who has been admitted to the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona. Except for some rare exceptions I have always received very good comments on the treatment received. Let us summarize that parents who have been there only tell them how other hospitals work and hallucinate, failing to understand the restrictions that others carry out.
In fact, in this hospital, they have always been clear that children and parents should be together the longer the better and in 2008 they chose to open a semicritic unit where some children who no longer need intensive care but an attention could be more constant than in a plant, and in this unit, from the beginning, the parents were allowed to be with the children 24 hours.
The ICU finally open 24 hours
The ICU took the witness and gradually expanded the entrance schedules of the children's relatives until last month they decided that there were no restrictions in terms of schedules. Children can be accompanied 24 hours a day To a degree that both families, and especially children, would greatly appreciate it. Can you imagine for a moment the fear that can happen to a sick child staying alone in a place that is completely unknown? Even when it has been a few days and you know the place and the staff, do you want to be always accompanied by someone in your family?
And when it comes to the family, won't many parents want to stay as long as possible with their son or daughter, giving affection and emotional support? How many mothers have suffered the unspeakable returning home, to that house where their son is not, feeling absurd for not staying with their son, but helpless for not being able to do it because of a restricted schedule.
