Moldovan hospitals to allow parents supervising children put in resuscitation department

Chisinau, 29 June /MOLDPRES/ - Hospitals will allow parents supervising their children put in the resuscitation and intensive therapy departments. Minors up to the age of three years will be permanently accompanied by one of the family members. A regulation to this effect was issued by the Health Ministry’s leadership today.

Under the document, in case of children older than three years, parents’ access to resuscitation departments will be ensured depending on possibilities of the medical institution. The regulation sees that minor patients should be accompanied by a legal representative in the intensive therapy and resuscitation departments. This can be one of the family members or tutor, if the child is orphan or his/her parents are abroad.     

According to the regulation, the parents will have access to the intensive therapy and resuscitation departments including at night. In this case, the permission of the department’s head is necessary and if the latter is absent, of the physician  resuscitationist on guard. They will be obliged, upon entering the department, to put on a doctor’s smock, a cap, a mask and special shoes. At the first visit, parents or tutors will receive the necessary equipment on behalf of the medical institution. Also, the medical staff will give them possibilities to disinfect their hands.      

Under the new regulation, parents will be obliged to sign an agreement on confidentiality, thereby giving their consent to observe the rules of access and behavior in the aforementioned departments. Also, they will assume responsibility not to divulge information about the health condition of these patients and not to take pictures and film.  

The medical staff will refuse access to the intensive therapy and resuscitation departments to legal representatives who are drunk, drugged, aggressive and with symptoms of contagious disease. Also, physicians will be able to ban adults from attending procedures of resuscitating children.  

So far, the entrance of parents in the intensive therapy and resuscitation departments has been restricted.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor A. Raileanu)