The National wellness Fund and the Foundation We give the Children Force signed a groundbreaking cooperation agreement to defend children from violence. Activities will focus on training primary healthcare personnel in identifying symptoms of kid harm. Doctors, nurses and midwives will learn how to intervene effectively in cases of suspected force against the youngest.
The aim of the agreement is to strengthen the systemic protection of children and young people from violence. Basic healthcare personnel will learn to admit symptoms of harm to the kid and to make effective interventions.
The cooperation will make harmonised and applicable standards for responding to force against children. peculiar training by the Foundation experts will besides be launched, adapted to the reality of working in medical facilities.
Systematic work to defend children
"Security of children from force is simply a systemic duty. POS staff must be ready and trained - this cooperation is real support in this mission" - said Vice-President of the National wellness Fund Marek Augustyn.
Urszula Kubicka-Kraszyńska, an FDDS expert on kid protection standards, stressed in a conversation with PAP that wellness care facilities are crucial for the prevention of kid harm. "These are places that give the chance to intervene as early as possible and minimize the effects of force on the child's further life, erstwhile a doctor or caregiver sees that their small patient may experience violence" - she explained.
Dramatic Differences in Statistics
The problem is reflected in alarming statistics. "When we compile data about the injuries caused by the hospitalization of children, with the number of violent proceedings initiated, e.g. due to suspected kid abuse, these numbers are completely dispersing" - said the expert.
The Foundation investigated a fewer years ago how frequently a signal of possible harm to the kid comes out of medical facilities. Although in Polish hospitals all 3rd wellness care individual has a suspicion of force against the child, only 1 percent of the staff fill out blue card forms.
Practical application of protection standards
According to regulations, each medical facility is to have standards of protection for minors. The FDDS wants to teach POZ employees how to practically usage them. "We care that if anyone in a given healing entity suspects that the kid is injured, he can recognise it and take action to guarantee the child's safety" - stressed the researcher.
An component of the training is to identify possible force during the visit, including on the basis of the relation between the kid and the parent. "It is not only about wellness or hygiene negligence, but besides emotional, that is, any situation that should prompt reflection on whether this household needs any form of support or intervention" - said Kubicka-Kraszyńska.
Experiences with dramatic cases
Dr Andrzej Bulandra, a doctor from the advanced Silesian Children's wellness Centre in Katowice, spoke about the request for training, who took care of Kamilka, a boy tortured by his stepfather, who died in 2023 as a consequence of the injuries caused to him. The doctor emphasized that training is essential due to the fact that caregivers effort to convince doctors that injuries to the body of the injured kid are the consequence of an accidental accident.
"It is frequently children who are protected by their oppressors, while not telling the real reasons for the injuries they are being harmed by. Or they are silent in fear of the continuation of what they experience at home" - added the specialist.
Special attention to the youngest
The Foundation wants to emphasize cognition about the youngest children - patients up to the age of three. "This is simply a group of children who frequently miss out erstwhile parents do not, for example, vaccinate the kid and avoid doctor visits. Until kindergarten, specified a kid may be invisible to the strategy and no 1 will be able to aid him" - stressed the expert.
In fact, the most serious cases of adult death or serious wellness harm are children up to the age of four. According to the Foundation, 79 percent of children and teenagers in Poland experienced force at least erstwhile in their lives.
26 percent of teenagers were sexually abused without physical contact, and 8 percent were sexually exposed. 32 percent of children suffered force from a loved one.
(PAP) Note: This article was edited with Artificial Intelligence.
