Nadezhda Tsekulova on Darik: The system sees children as soulless objects that it must repair
"It is important to separate children from adults in medical institutions so that they do not experience the horror of seeing other patients with severe injuries," says Dr. Tanya Andreeva
The case with Mustafa Emin, a member of D.B. and advisor to the war minister Todor Tagarev, accused of arrogant behaviour and abuse of influence in the children's ward of the Pirogov emergency hospital, remains unsolved at this stage despite the announcement of a completed inspection in Pirogov. However, while we continue to dwell on the question of whether a political figure in a high administrative position tried to use his position to ensure that his child was treated in priority conditions, we are missing the big picture of the state of emergency children's healthcare in our country.
Why are children and parents forced to wait for hours for routine procedures along with dozens of other suffering people of all ages? Are there enough pediatricians in the city and the country? What is happening to the children's hospital project? What is the treatment of young patients and their parents? Answers to some of these fundamentally important questions were given in "Who speaks" on Darik by three women in different roles for whom children's healthcare is life, work and a cause.
Nadezhda Tsekulova, journalist and activist; Ani Stoyanova, founder of the Danaya Foundation (both are members of the Public Council for the construction of the National Children's Hospital) and Tanya Andreeva, pediatrician and former MP commented on the topic.
"I did not witness what happened to Mustafa Emin and can only comment on the case in principle. Any abuse of office is absolutely unacceptable. Unfortunately, the situation a parent with a sick child finds themselves in is always particularly distressing for the whole family and systemic health care problems only reinforce this anxiety in parents. I appeal to the government to do its job and to clarify the whole case so that it is clear whether there was any abuse of power, whether there was abuse of office or whether things were within the bounds of normalcy and accordingly, if there was such abuse, to take appropriate measures and if there was no abuse, to clear his name," Dr. Andreeva said.
"For me, the institution that could solve this case is Pirogov Hospital. All of us who live in Sofia know what "Pirogov" represents for the citizens of Sofia. "Pirogov is an institution, not just one of Sofia's hospitals. It is the place where we all seek help in the most difficult moments we face. It is the place where many severe trauma cases are admitted. It is a hospital that has a police post at the entrance and I cannot believe that Pirogov does not know what has happened on its territory. I believe that if the management wishes to access the information about what happened, they could gather that data and make it available to all of us so that we can properly address our civic anger. This is a situation that the vast majority of parents have experienced. You go to the treatment facility with a distraught young child, hoping not only to get help, but to have someone respond to your fear, and when no one responds to that fear for hours, and you're holding this scared child in your arms, it increases your fear that you might be missing something," said Nadezhda Tsekulova.
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