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The Moscow News. This week, politician and journalist Maria Gaidar posted a note on her blog urging a children's hospital in Tushino to reform its visitation rules - parents
This week, politician and journalist Maria Gaidar posted a note on her blog urging a children's hospital in Tushino to reform its visitation rules - parents are allowed to visit their sick children just twice a week, for half an hour. Municipal deputy Maxim Katz supported Gaidar in her criticism of the hospital and sent a request for an explanation to the Moscow Department of Health. The issue here isn't just one hospital's individual policy, however. Across Russia, sick children are routinely separated from their parents and are subject to the most draconian rules regarding visitation. The situation with many pediatric intensive care units is particularly dire. According to an investigation done by Bolshoi Gorod magazine into certain pediatric intensive care units in Moscow, parents of dying children aren't even allowed in to say goodbye. In one heart-breaking story told by Bolshoi Gorod, a mother went all the way to the top echelons of the city administration to gain some kind of access to her terminally ill infant. The administration refused to help, citing laws that allow hospitals to set their own rules in order to curb the spread of infection and not disrupt the work of doctors and nurses. The mother was allowed to hold her dying son's hand only by special permission from the hospital authorities, after wearing them down over time. There are three key factors at play here. First of all, most facilities are not spacious or modern enough to allow for comfortable visits. Second of all, there is the repeated assumption that all visitors "spread disease" (in spite of increasing evidence that most dangerous bugs thrive within hospital walls, as opposed to outside) and hospitals are not prepared to handle issues of hygiene effectively. Third and most important of all, most hospital administrators still have a Soviet mindset when it comes to children in particular - the idea that parents of sick children just get in the way. Parents are hysterical, and must be removed. Yet according to the World Health Organization, children, particularly small children, experience a great deal of stress when separated from their parents while sick. This stress, in turn, slows down the healing process. The WHO findings revolutionized the way children's hospitals operate in the West. It's time for Russian hospitals to start catching up. It may be a difficult process, but it will be worth it.
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