A mother has started a request on the Change.org platform to request school nurses in Castilla-La Mancha, and has already collected more than 300 signatures.
As explained, his son Lucas has type 1 diabetes since July and is only 3 years old.“Right now in a matter of minutes, it goes from having high level sugar to very low levels, so much that a misfortune can be passed out and occurs.This type of illness can appear at any time in the life of a child and has nothing to do with his food or his lifestyle, ”according to Europa Press.
Lucas has started school this year and, according to his mother, he is being “a disaster”, he goes out with the sugar in 300 than with hypoglycemia.According to his mother, the little one is measured alone but sometimes they do not remember him and can pass more than an hour and a half without controlling.
“We have asked for a nurse who can control and prick when he needs it, but we are still waiting and even if they authorize it, it will only be temporarily.I have been told that I do not school or adapt my life to the circumstances of my house, of course, none of this in writing, ”says Aurora, the mother.
As stated, if your child had another type of disease or disability, it would be attended at school, but in the case of Lucas, as insulin must be click, "they don't take over."All this, as his mother recalls, violates his right to education, article 27 of the Constitution, and his right to equality, article 14.
“It is not just for him, tomorrow could be your son, the son of your friends or your nephew to which the same thing with this or other disease happened.We need school nurses to take care of our children in school, give you the medicines and care that, unfortunately many of them need to live. ”
According to Law 5/2014 on Social and Legal Protection of Children and Adolescents of Castilla-La Mancha, childhood attention has “budget priority” and the measures adopted have to favor the “full social integration of minors"But, according to this mother," it is not being fulfilled. ""Every day that happens at school is a day when we live with the fear that something can happen to you," he says.
Unions like Anpe have been claiming it years ago: having nurses or school nurses “is not a luxury but a need.It is also claimed by nursing schools.In September 2020, and during the first year of the Covid-19 Pandemia, the Ministry of Education hired for the "emergency route" to 23 professionals for the province of Toledo.The contracts were made for that school year.Education explained then that "Toledo was the province where we needed.The other provinces were covered. ”
According to the data of the School Nursing Observatory of the General Nursing Council (CGE) corresponding to 2021, Castilla-La Mancha only had 22 professionals hired for more than 300,000 students.