Rehabilitation interrupted for a disabled person, the parents report the ASP of Vibo

The story of a disabled girl whose rehabilitation program and “Life Project” started with the Municipality of Vibo were interrupted; the parents filed a complaint against the ASP: “Our daughter has the right to be treated”

VIBO VALENTIA – «Our daughter, 33 years old, severely disabled, is hospitalized in a facility in Emilia Romagna under a residential regime pursuant to art. 26 of Law 833/1978 where he receives continuous care and therapies which fall within the indispensable and essential assistance services, impossible to guarantee in a home environment; but his care path was abruptly interrupted when the ASP of Vibo Valentia decided, unilaterally, to close it and so we decided to file a complaint.”

It is the bitter complaint of the Vibonese parents of a girl, Francesco and Caterina, who call into question the Vibona health authority against which they have also started a legal battle with the aim of seeing their daughter recognize “that right to health that it is not a concession or a courtesy.”

This is a story very similar to that of Francesco that we talked about in recent days.

THE PARENTS OF THE DISABLED GIRL FROM VIBO REVIEW THE STORY

Father and mother of the 33-year-old retrace the story, recalling that the communication of the conclusion of the rehabilitation process came like a bolt from the blue: “A cold formal note addressed” among other things only to the host structure and to the ASP of Romagna, but not to the family, therefore completely ignored. “On 23 April 2024, our daughter was formally discharged, despite the favorable opinion of the Asp of Romagna on the continuation of the therapeutic path”.

The accusations against the Vibono company are based on the fact that it “made this decision without ever evaluating his actual clinical conditions, without proposing adequate healthcare alternatives, violating not only art. 32 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to health of every citizen, but also art. 38, which establishes the right to social assistance for citizens unable to work and without the necessary means to live. Two constitutional pillars systematically ignored”, the parents further state, highlighting that the consequence of this provision “was also the suspension of the “Life Project” initiated with the Municipality of Vibo, leaving our family in a situation of extreme hardship”.

Fortunately for the girl, the host structure, “demonstrating extraordinary humanity, continues to assist our daughter and two other boys in the same conditions, taking on the expenses free of charge for six months”.

THE REQUESTS TO THE THEN COMMISSIONER OF THE ASP WERE UNFRUITUAL

However, according to the complainants, their attempts at dialogue with the ASP of Vibo were fruitless: “The meetings with the UVM, the social workers, the Director of the Health District, highlighted a disconcerting lack of professionalism and sensitivity, with the peak reached, in the month of June, in the meeting with the then Extraordinary Commissioner who we hoped would understand and listen to us and who, instead, dismissed the issue with a phrase that perfectly summarizes the inhumanity of the approach: “The case of his daughter is none other than one of the 146,000 cases of the inhabitants of the province of Vibo”.

THE DECISION TO FILE A COMPLAINT AGAINST THE ASP OF VIBO

Hence the decision of the parents of the disabled girl to take legal action “against some members of the ASP of Vibo Valentia” and the reporting of the matter to the “Minister of Disability, the President of the Calabria Region and the Prefecture, but at the moment, no concrete response has been received from the institutions that should protect the most vulnerable citizens. Rights are not concessions, they are not acts of generosity bestowed from above but fundamental principles guaranteed by our Constitution. If it is true that criteria for access and review of health services are necessary, when they are applied by an incompetent administration lacking in empathy the consequences can be devastating. It’s not just about administrative inefficiency: it’s a question of moral responsibility.”

Francesco and Caterina’s battle continues, also on a legal level, not only for their daughter but for “all those who find themselves fighting against a system that seems to have forgotten the meaning of the word “care” and the value of fundamental rights”.