2023-08-13 15:22:15
For lack of space in the appropriate reception facilities, babies and minors wander for weeks in pediatrics where caregivers make do with the means at hand. A situation symptomatic of a sector of youth assistance in the midst of a crisis. Article reserved for subscribers Deputy Head of the Society Department By Sandra Durieux Published on 08/13/2023 at 17:22 Reading time: 2 min
Save Willy! »… « Save W…! “. In the head nurse’s office, drawings of the heroine orca from the famous film line the walls. They were left there by Théo*, one of the three brothers welcomed into the pediatrics department of the Ambroise Paré hospital in Mons for… four months. “This little one had a passion, not to say an obsession for this animal and for this film”, confides Marie-Béatrice Vanderplas, the service psychologist. “He drew it everywhere and all the time. We can’t help but see a message there, especially since his last name began with the same letter! ” On the DIY that this doctor in psychology has kept from the siblings, the message is even clearer: “I’m going crazy to be here” wrote one of the children today transferred to a reception environment following more than four months wandering in the two dilapidated corridors of pediatrics. Since then, another sibling of two sisters aged 14 and 12 and a little brother aged 9 has taken over the service where they share a single room.
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