The Platform in defense of the Dependency Law in the Marina Alta has raised its voice against the cuts by the central and regional governments in matters of dependency, which are returning "dramatic" the situations of many families with dependent persons.
Representatives of Ludai, ADHAMA, APROSDECO, ADIMA, Obrint Camí, Condemados al Curzon and the AMPA of the special education school Raquel Payà, appeared yesterday before the press and a large audience to explain their demands and their situation after the approval of new laws in The matter.
In a manifesto supported by all the associations present explained the situation in which dependents and their families are, with a decrease of 15% of the benefit for care in the family environment and the cancellation of the listing of caregivers; copayment of up to 90% in services in day centers, residences, occupational centers or centers for mentally ill persons; the elimination of free medicines for children more than 33% disabled and elderly with more than 65%. Since last February 1 SIP cards of children with disabilities, who happened to be included in their parents and having to pay up to 50% of the drugs they were canceled.
Construction of the Sociosanitaria Area of La Pedrera
The manifesto calls for the construction of the Socio-Health Area of La Pedrera, which includes a Day and Residency Center for the severely disabled and a center for the mentally ill. In spite of the fact that in many occasions the Consellería announced the construction for the end of 2012, the certain thing is that in 2013 not a single Euro is destined for this necessary infrastructure.
From the platform they propose an intermediate solution to be able to offer this service while the complex is not being built: to enable an area in La Pedrera that can serve 50 or 60 people and to alleviate to a small extent the deficiencies in terms of dependency in the region.
But the struggle is exhausting, because when they ask propose this solution statistics of potential users who have the service data platform known because not allow them access.
Children's Mental Health Unit at the Hopital de Dénia
The implementation of the Children's Mental Health Unit (USMI) in the Hospital de Dénia is another of the claims collecting this manifest, charging the Department of "Failure to comply with its obligations by not providing our region with a USMI where children with attention deficit and hyperactivity can be treated correctly and by specific personnel."
According to denounce from the association ADHAMA, the not having this service in the region "violates the rights of minors in the Marina Alta". Currently the Hospital offers a weekly consultation with psychologists and psychiatrists not specialized in children and adolescents, which means that the consultations of each patient are spaced between 2 and 3 months, when it is necessary for patients with mental illnesses to be controlled weekly.
Raquel Payà "is not a priority"
It took a lot to get Dénia and the region to have a special education center, and now, that center where boys and girls go until the 21 years and urgently needs an improvement in their facilities, "is not a priority" for Consellería. For several years students study in barracks, with the danger of accessibility for students who come to class wheelchair.
Payment delays
All these associations are maintained in part by the aid coming from Consellería, but delays in payment are generating very disturbing situations. Ludai, which last year was recognized as Early Childhood Center, is waiting to receive more than 25.000 euros of subsidies that are owed from 2011. APROSDECO, meanwhile, is waiting for Ministry paid about 200.000 euros for aid of sheltered housing, the Special Center for Employment and Occupational Center.
The cost of having a dependent in the family
Up to 2.000 monthly euros will have to pay from now on some families with dependents under their care. And it is that the cuts in the aid, the obligatory payment of the medicines and the disappearance of the aid for the purchase of, for example, orthopedic material, have put the families in situations "really dramatic". According to denounce from the Platform, the cuts have decreased aid to some families to the monthly 20 euros.
The future
Starting next June, the central government will download autonomy management of the unit, which concerns the members of the Platform since the Valencian Community is behind Ceuta and Melilla in terms of dependency.
Complaints to all agencies
Both individually from each association, as jointly from the platform, they have raised allegations of this situation the Ombudsman and the Commissioner of the Hospital, not getting solutions of any of the entities. Josep Vidal, spokesman Raquel Payà, proposed that all platforms in the Region come together to denounce this situation because "now it is OK".
Platform spokeswoman, Cristina Serrano, today announced that they are preparing a complaint to be taken to the European Union to make their voices heard.
First support in the region
From the Platform in Defense of Law Unit in the Marina Alta are reminded that many foreign associations currently collaborating with the associations of the Platform, but also pleased that more and more companies in the region are more aware the status of dependents.
The president of CEDMA, Sonja Dietz, He went to the call to support the Platform members and asked them not cease their struggle. Councilwoman TDF, Mari Martínez, Meanwhile, he recalled that his party proposed that the money the Trust plan that would build the theater La Nau to the creation of Sociosanitaria Area Pedrera is intended.
