In line with the requirements demanded by the Dominga Law, which indicates special measures in case of gestational or perinatal death, the Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins Regional Hospital (HRLBO) enabled two mourning rooms which, fully equipped, aim to respectfully welcome the affected parents.
“Both rooms, one in the Neonatal UPC, and the other, in the Comprehensive Birth Unit, come to protect the privacy of mothers, fathers and significant companions, in the course of the grief they experience,” said Franco Pérez, deputy director of Midwifery. , Sexual Diversity and Gender of the HRLBO, stating “its implementation, now completed, not only obeys legal and ministerial aspects, but also adjusts to the institutional objective of providing more humanized care, so that already established also means compliance with a milestone for our hospital.”
With the above, Pérez maintained “these are spaces that have rest furniture, a desk area and a cafeteria corner, the idea is to provide, without a time limit regarding the stay in the rooms, greater comfort in moments of great sensitivity”, adding that, “its equipment also corresponds to a sustained strategic alliance between our subdirectorate and the Department of Participation and User Satisfaction, with whom we have been working on the implementation for some time, through the Hospital Amigo program.”
Alejandra Valencia, head of the Department of Participation and User Satisfaction of the Regional Hospital, for her part, pointed out that “our alliance, along the lines of Hospital Amigo, with the Gineco Obstetra block, has involved applying for projects to progressively enable the rooms, providing them with boxes and memorial bags among other details, making the necessary modifications, according to what the users themselves report as needs. In that sense, we want to empathize with the mothers and those close to them, who, in the process of grieving, feel a delivery of affection on our part, which exceeds the technical delivery that the law seeks to guarantee.”
“But along with the authorization, it is important to highlight that the progress obtained does not only cover arranging the rooms, because it is about implementing the law that guarantees and ensures effective comprehensive support, therefore, we have a multidisciplinary, biopsychosocial, accompanying mothers and their families during this time,” said Franco Pérez.
About the Comprehensive Grief Committee
The deputy director of Midwifery, Sexual Diversity and Gender of the HRLBO addressed the existence of this committee, stating that “it involves the participation of officials from different services, units and departments, which was created in 2023, to be configured as guarantors that the development of the grieving, be respectful and dignified. As a human group, it is responsible for developing and executing relevant awareness-raising and socio-education strategies for the user and civil servant community.
Finally, Franco Pérez pointed out, “this is an institutional achievement that is intended to optimize the management involved in a duel of these characteristics. An achievement that entails carrying out continuous training and awareness-raising among health teams. We seek to grow as guarantors of specialized and timely care, advance in kinder, more humane care regarding sexual and reproductive rights, comply with ministerial guidelines, with what is expressed in the law, but above all with the community.”
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