Overview
- The seven-year-old was moved from a Vasto group home to hospital after Sunday’s breathing crisis and is on oxygen and nebulizers for a likely seasonal infection.
- Regional officials and the hospital say the parents were told right away and visited, while the family’s advisers say the couple learned only the next day after staff tried a switched-off number for the father and did not call the mother.
- National child-rights guarantor Marina Terragni says the mother is limited to one-hour visits under supervision, and the family’s consultants report three nights without a parent at the bedside.
- Doctors describe the condition as stable and precautionary, with discharge planned once breathing improves, as the head of Parliament’s child panel asked the juvenile court to allow the mother to stay overnight.
- The children have lived in a protected home since their discovery in an Abruzzo woodland, a status that places contact under court rules and now drives a wider debate over how institutions manage hospital stays for minors in care.