Maria Elena Naddeo (Dialogue for Buenos Aires), Jorge Selser (Project South), Diana Maffía , Sergio and Fernando Abrevaya Sanchez (all of the Civic Coalition), Francisco Nenna , Gabriela Alegre and Maria José Lubertino (all three of Meeting People for Victory) , Antonio Campos ( UCR) and Marcelo Parrilli (New Left), with professional and nonprofessional employees of the Hospital Child and Adolescent Tobar Garcia did a press conference to denounce once again the danger of underfunding of the works of integral refunctionalization .
President of the Special Committee on Mental Health, María Elena Naddeo, said "it is urgent to solve the opening of inpatient beds for emergency therapy and brief therapy in general hospitals of the city, to include mental health and addiction treatment as part of the attention of the public system health, without discrimination or stigmatization. "
"In the current budget is not open the game for Mental Health, we know that items included in general may be about 10 million dollars and at least consider to be three times that game," said Naddeo.
President of the Committee on Health, Jorge Selser announced that "shortly after starting the session in 2011 and we have to report that are committed to continuing the work, not only of Tobar Garcia but of all public hospitals, as well as infrastructure programs and equipment. "
Meanwhile, Diana Maffia said that" this Thursday we will require in the session that see Garcia Tobar budget and warned that approval of 2011 budget does not affect the continuation of work because that item was included in the multi-year Plan ".
" We are calling on the City budget to open 10 inpatient brief in general hospitals, the creation of 2 halfway houses for patients without families continent, the creation of 2-way houses (for kids with addictions) for the implementation of a program of therapeutic support in order to cooperate with inpatients and their subsequent reintegration into the family. It is also necessary replacement of vacancies in all outpatient services dismantled, "said Rep. Naddeo.
Compliance with legislation guaranteeing health care model based Mental Health Human Rights, in particular the recently passed National Law 26,657 of Mental Health require a certain minimum conditions for compliance.
"Basically, these laws require the existence of public policies and special programs of containment and non-therapeutic care for mental hospitals entire population, children and adults, "concluded Naddeo.
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