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Hospitals throughout the country are missing children. Children with unexplained bruises and wounds. Children who are exposed to violence, abuse and neglect.
We are very concerned about what we are experiencing currently, ” says the head of department and pediatrician Cathrine it is also possible the Garden by Sosialpediatrisk section at Oslo university Hospital (OUS).
Usually examines she and colleagues between 10 and 15 children for injuries after violence and abuse every week. The last two weeks they only had one child for the survey.
Several of the major hospitals in the country tells us about the same.
you Will report violence or abuse you can call as for children and youth at 116 111. You can also find information here. Health care and important evidence
A baby with severed leppebånd after tvangsmating. A nine-year-old boy with tears after having been lifted by the ears. A young girl with small bruises over the entire body after pinching.
IMPORTANT health CARE: Physician Elin Drivenes is afraid that the children are exposed to violence and abuse now don’t get helsehjelpa they need.
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Doctor Elin Drivenes and her colleagues at the University hospital of North-Norway meets three to twelve children exposed to violence and abuse every week. She examines the children and gives helsehjelpa they need. At the same time ensures she vital evidence to the criminal cases. But the last week she has not examined a single child.
– It is difficult to get the kids here because many planes and ferries do not go. The children are not in school or kindergarten, and it is often the sign of violence taking place at home.
She fears the children will not now receive helsehjelpa they need and that vital evidence disappears. For bruises and wounds heal every day.
the tip of the iceberg
EVIDENCE DISAPPEARS: – Wounds and bruises are fresh products, so it should not go so many days before you find any damage you otherwise would have found, says the doctor Arne Kristian Myhre.
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– Those who come to us are the tip of the iceberg. I’m afraid that the proportion of under havoverflata now increases, ” says pediatrician at St. Olavs hospital in Trondheim, Arne Kristian Myhre.
They have had a few more children to study the last week, but there are still fewer than usual. When the school and the nursery is closed is omsorgssvikten harder to catch up. At the same time causes unsafe economy, permitteringer and the home office that the level of stress in many families increases.
– worry and stress is an important risk factor for more violence and more child neglect. It is quite scary right now.
Major concern
After that the schools and kindergartens were closed have both teachers, the police and other professionals expressed strong concern for the children that have it difficult at home. Education ms. Guri Melby has therefore emphasised that schools also remain open for vulnerable children, in addition to children with parents in criticism jobs.
at the same time, it appointed an expert group to see how såbare children can be caught up and get help.
– It is the way that children who live in unsafe home is what worries us most now that kindergartens and schools are closed, ” says acting assistant director Linda Granlund.
But with every day that passes with rigorous smitteverntiltak, increases bekymringa for those children who live with violence.
– We must support smitteverntiltakene. At the same time we are very concerned for the children who live in unsafe homes, and encourages all to care about those around him, says it is also possible the Garden, at the OUS.
notify: Physician Cathrine it is also possible the Garden encourages everyone to notify police or child welfare if they are worried about a child. – At the same time I encourage children to tell what happens to a safe adult or call 116111.
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