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Description
Forgotten and overlooked children is a project aimed in helping children with special needs and their families to obtain their rights to continuous therapy and medical treatment in the upcoming second coronavirus wave. Project is two folded. Firstly we need to get solutions to how the government is going to resolve the issue of making up for missed therapies and medical treatments. And second, in case of second coronavirus epidemic wave, how are they going to guarantee continuous care and treatments in specific medical departments for people with special needs and make sure their needs are continuosly addressed even in epidemic times.
We need to publicly address the issue, speak loudly and perform public pressure in order to get heard and issues to get taken into account when formulating new protective measurements against coronavirus. We will organize campaigns, will be present in media and design brochures, fliers and posters. We will suggest concrete solutions and demand them from the government and other responsible institutions in order to protect the lives and health of people with special needs since currently they were discrimated in the previous period and not enabled to access their treatment.
The core group of the project are people with special needs and their families.
Project will be carried out by Društvo Vesele nogice, the applicant. We are not collaborating with other partners.
Summary of project results
The project had contributed to the improvements of the legislation regarding the children with special needs during Covid-19 restrictions. As a lot of services were prohibited, including physical theraphy, this had had a very negative impact on those children who went on remission and their health conditions severely decreased. The problem was sucessfully resolved also due to the decision of the contitutional court that childeren with special needs should get back to school immediately, regardless of the pandemic. The project contributed to the change of practice and in the second phase of the country lock-down, therapies for children with special needs continued to be perfomed.