Room in the Trebely center for disabled children in Târgu Mureș. Photo: Center for Legal Resources
A surprise check carried out on Saturday morning in four placement centers under DGASPC Mureș, located in the municipality of Târgu Mureș, showed that minors there live in inadequate conditions, says the Legal Resources Center (CRJ).
In the four centers visited by the CRJ and the Supervisory Board, a total of 63 children with disabilities are institutionalized (61 present in the centers and 2 hospitalized), although the capacity for which the operating license was initially issued it was for a number of 51. beneficiaries.
At the time of the visit, all four centers were operating illegally, with operating licenses expired for more than a month, he says. CRJ in a press releaseadding that several illegalities were identified during the control, including:
- “Children between the ages of 3-7 are not in the care of professional fosters, as the law requires, but locked in centers. Thus, DGASPC Mureș has violated the obligation to provide care for the children in the family environment.
- In one of the centers, eight children were locked in locked rooms located outside so that they could not leave the rooms. The staff of the service informed us that they resorted to this method due to lack of staff.
- In two of the centers, after checking the drugs in the emergency machines, expired drugs were identified. The service staff stated that they had administered these treatments recently.
- In all four centers, living and care conditions are inadequate, do not meet legal standards, 9 children in one room, rooms without doors, unsanitary spaces, mattresses covered in plastic, beds of inadequate size – all these are probably danger. the life and integrity of children.
- In one of the centers, we found an outbreak of chicken pox, five children were diagnosed, not all of them were isolated from other institutionalized children.
- There are children with disabilities who do not receive physiotherapy services even though doctors say that the lack of recovery can put their lives in danger.”
“These children are neglected, sometimes left alone”
The Center for Legal Resources says it has participated in several monitoring visits to these centers, starting in March 2024, which have been announced or announced.
“In all the visits, CRJ observed the same situation – serious problems of overcrowding, lack of hygiene, lack of adequate nutrition, lack of access to medical services, lack of activity and recovery of children, forced institutionalization – most families were not advised before the purchase of children in the family did not receive adequate services in the community and after institutionalization – their right to visit their. children has been restricted,” according to the statement.
“All CRJ’s visits to the Trebely Center showed that these children are neglected, sometimes left alone and without supervision, they lack specific recovery and rehabilitation activities – which were the main reason for their institutionalization in that center, they lack care appropriate medical, lack of nutritional assessment. In the files of children who present themselves at the emergency room of the County Hospital / Emergency Hospital Tg. In Mures, there are mentions regarding the admission of children without a relative or presentation only in an emergency and not for specialist consultation. For many children, emergency doctors have recorded severe malnutrition and dehydration at l ‘income,” says CRJ.
“It’s a terribly sad situation”
“It is a terribly sad situation, because we are talking about 63 children, children with disabilities, between 3 and 14 or 18 years old, he said. It’s 24 Georgiana Pascu, manager of the Legal Resources Center.
“The first time I came to one of the four centers was in March, at the beginning of last year, when I found 18 children of 3 years and older in a center in the center of the city of Târgu Mureș. Why is this situation so serious? Because during the countless visits we have made in the last year, we have lost count of the announced and unannounced visits,” he said.
“On the one hand we noticed the irregularity and on the other hand we tried to help concretely, bringing specialist doctors, equipment bought with private funds to get these children out of bed, and nothing was done” , added Georgiana Pascu.
