The law allows children and adolescents to visit parents in the hospital.

The law that stipulates the rights of children and adolescents Visits to mothers or fathers in hospitals in health institutions were approved this week. The rule will come into effect 180 days after its publication last Monday (5).

The visit is one of the measures proposed by the National Humanitarian Policy of the Unified Health System (SUS). The Ministry of Health said in a statement that the proposal aims to expand visits to hospital units in order to ensure that patients have “full access to their social cycle and health services”.

The ministry stressed that “the right to receive people you know and your family, as well as to have a companion, embodies the concept of the extended clinic and makes visits part of the treatment.”

Recepion

To allow minors to enter healthcare institutions, it will be necessary for multidisciplinary teams to receive them on a case-by-case basis, in addition to following clinical protocols to avoid hospital-acquired infections.

Another factor that needs to be reconsidered, according to the ministry, is the perception that the hospital environment is “unsuitable, cold and hostile.” According to the ministry, the presence of visitors and companions stimulates the patient’s hormone production and reduces his state of alertness and anxiety.

Humanization

The National Humanization Policy has existed since 2003 with the proposal to implement the SUS principles in daily care and management practices, qualify public health in Brazil and encourage solidarity exchanges between managers, workers and employees.

“Strengthening communication between these three groups could spark a series of discussions about changes that provide a better way of care and new ways of organizing work,” the Ministry of Health assessed.

“Humanization is the valuing of users, workers and managers in the health production process. Valuing subjects means providing greater autonomy, expanding their capacity to change the reality in which they live, through shared responsibility, creating supportive links and collective participation in health management and production processes.