(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 23 - For years she has been alongside her child every day who lives with cystic fibrosis, facing it with a smile on her lips, today Lorena Iglesias launches an appeal to the President of the Lazio Region Nicola Zingaretti for all those parents who, like her, they want to protect their Covid weather children
In an open letter, he asks for the priority to be given to vaccinating caregivers of fibrosic children.
"I write as the mother caregiver of Andrea, a 15-year-old boy suffering from cystic fibrosis and being treated at the Umberto I Polyclinic in Rome and as President of the association La Magia di un Respiro created to support families and patients who live with this very serious pathology - begins the letter - Nobody pretends to pass in front of anyone! One wonders if the Lazio Region within the framework defined by the ministerial provisions, has the possibility and the will to implement them in such a way as to fill some evident discrepancies ". "The caregivers of fibrosis do not fall into the categories to be vaccinated - explains Lorena Iglesias - Therefore a child who is under 16 cannot be vaccinated for this reason he must be protected in another way, first of all with the recognition of vaccination priority for parents. Uncomprehensibly uncontemplated recognition in the case of cystic fibrosis but expressly foreseen for onco-haematological patients, another category of 'extremely vulnerable people', resulting in unequal treatment and violation of the constitutional principle of equality ". (HANDLE).