A palliative care center is a reality where disease is no longer a path accident, but an irreversible condition. Sometimes, lethal. “Here in Passoscuro”, Dr. Michele Salata, director of the first center of Pediatric Palliative Care born in Lazio on the impulse of the Pediatric Hospital comments Child Jesus, “We have about 300 young patients per year. They suffer from very serious diseases, not curable. But 92 percent of them come home. Unfortunately, 8 percent dies ».
Among these coastal dunes still intact, between heaven and sea, In a landscape that looks like a small paradise, Federico Fellini chose to turn the final scene of La Dolce Vita. Here, sometimes, children die. “All our therapeutic interventions,” adds Sala, “are agreed with the family, in an honest and proportionate way. We cannot delay death, but we can offer a sense more accomplished to living, removing physical pain and moral anguish from the little ones and their families ».
“My son Alessandro died in Passoscuro on July 7, 2023. He was 15 years old and had always been sick,” explains Domenico D’Antuono, a courageous dad from the province of Naples who lived alone the agony of his son. «My wife had died a few years before cancer, knowing the end that she would have touched our son, suffering from type 2 ceroidolipofuscinosis, a disease for which there is no cure and that condemned him to years of unimaginable pain. In the last period of his life, he took 42 drugs per day and his epileptic crises continued continuously even for 16 hours. But in Passoscuro we found a team that took charge of our psychological and spiritual torment, as well as of Alexander’s physical suffering who, in a few years, had lost many of his vital functions. Unable to move and support arts and heads, he was completely helpless and in need of love and care … ».
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