They are not sick, but they are hospitalized for behavioral problems or because their family is in crisis. A decried solution.
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Doctor Madeleine Mirabaud, responsible for social hospitalizations (left) and Denise Girard Pichoud, nurse responsible for the care team.
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Each year, hundreds of children are placed in homes for psychological or behavioral problems. Or because their family environment is going through a crisis or they must be protected when their life is in danger. However, with the current shortage of places in adapted structures – including host families – these minors must sometimes stay at the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG). We then speak of social hospitalizations. A decried solution. “The hospital is not an adequate place to live for non-sick children”: doctors, educators, elected politicians, all agree in denouncing the hospitalization of these young people, admittedly in distress, but not suffering from any medical pathology itself.
