Today we delivered our petition
to the secretary of Welfare from the Greek ministry of welfare and
social security! We want to thank you for every signature!
With the peition we demand from the Greek government to:
- Immediately recruit in house dedicated and specialised medical staff, such as a doctor, psychologists, special education teachers, social workers, speech therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and respectable numbers of trained nurses.
- Provide extensive and professional training for the current nurses in caring for disabled people and their specific conditions and mental health problems.
- End the practice of restraining, sedating and keeping residents in caged beds, cells or locked rooms. Instead get professionals in to teach alternative options to allow the staff to cope with any challenging behaviours in a professional and respectful manner.
- Re-launch and re-organise the volunteer programme which was discontinued in 2011.
- Relocate the residents to smaller care homes or to community-based care so that their living environment, the medical and therapeutic care will be appropriate to their needs.
- to implement a legal framework in Greece that sets minimal requirements for any existing place housing disabled people and that promotes de-institutionalisation as well as community-based care. The legislation must ensure and promote human rights for persons with disability according to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for which Greece is a signatory.
With the peition we demand from the Greek government to:
- Immediately recruit in house dedicated and specialised medical staff, such as a doctor, psychologists, special education teachers, social workers, speech therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and respectable numbers of trained nurses.
- Provide extensive and professional training for the current nurses in caring for disabled people and their specific conditions and mental health problems.
- End the practice of restraining, sedating and keeping residents in caged beds, cells or locked rooms. Instead get professionals in to teach alternative options to allow the staff to cope with any challenging behaviours in a professional and respectful manner.
- Re-launch and re-organise the volunteer programme which was discontinued in 2011.
- Relocate the residents to smaller care homes or to community-based care so that their living environment, the medical and therapeutic care will be appropriate to their needs.
- to implement a legal framework in Greece that sets minimal requirements for any existing place housing disabled people and that promotes de-institutionalisation as well as community-based care. The legislation must ensure and promote human rights for persons with disability according to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for which Greece is a signatory.
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