The infantile neuropsychiatry department of Rogliano (Cosenza) has been without the professional figure of a speech therapist since December 2024, an indispensable and indispensable figure for dozens of boys and girls and their relative families, who for years have entrusted the center and professionalism of the doctors to guarantee their children a personal and correct social insertion to their children. To report the disservice is the deputy of the 5 Stars Anna Lauro Orrico who this morning filed a complaint in the Prosecutor’s Office in Cosenza.
“I decided to have to report – he explained by meeting the journalists outside the palace of justice – because a serious injury of some rights sanctioned by our Constitution is underway, the principle of equality and the right to care. The families of these children, in these eight months, have had to turn to the private individual, who has been able, who has resources. Unfortunately, many others have remained at home and for children who have serious disabilities, even a single week in not being able to take advantage of these services affects the path of growth and obviously of social inclusion “. “The inertia of the competent bodies – he added – has produced a paralyzing and discriminatory effect by placing minors and respective families in the face of an unacceptable choice: to give up care, or, where economically possible, incur the costs at private structures, thus generating substantial inequality in the social fabric. This situation, confirmed by multiple families residing in the Savuto area, demonstrates a current and concrete prejudice to the psychophysical health of minors, with the risk of irreversible damage deriving from the lack of therapeutic continuity “. According to what was reconstructed in the complaint, there are about thirty families who are denied the service and to aggravate the situation there are families who have not received home care for years. “In building the complaint – concluded Anna Laura Orrico – I collected the complaints of some families, but many others have decided to remain silent for fear that their complaint could be transformed into a further prejudice on their rights, as if the complaint could somehow generate a further wrong towards the right of their children to access the care and this is very serious because these rights have willingly have been transformed into forms of blackmail or Pleasure of favor ».
