Vocabulary
- referred: send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision
Main Ideas:
- Andrea M., a nursing student was raped one afternoon in 2004 on her way to the train station.
- The staff of the program treated her with understanding, helped her prevent pregnancy and offered her specialized psychologic care.
- Diana Galimberti, the hospital´s deputy director started the program after she got the idea in one conference in Brazil and look into statistics.
- She and a group of colleagues designed a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week rape-victim assistance protocol that was launched as a pilot program in November of 2002
- A few mo
nths later, Argentina’s Ministry of Health ordered all public hospitals to attempt to implement similar protocols.
- If victims come to the program´s office within 24 hours of having been attacked, they can get the tools to prevent sexually transmited diseases.
- If the victim gets to the hospital within 72 hours of having been raped, she will be offered emergency contraception pills.
- After the preventive treatment is completed, women are offered with counseling, which can last as much as six months.
- Some women don’t want to talk about what happened because remembering everything that happened often upset them.
- Many victims think they could have done something to stop it from happening and do not realize that they save their lives by not doing anything.
- Only 10 percent of rapes in Argentina are reported to the police. And barely 10 percent of trials for sexual offenses end with the accused being sentenced.
- Marcela Rodríguez, a lawyer and member of Argentina’s chamber of deputies thinks filing a report is not always a good idea because it can produce more frustration. She only recomends it when she considers it can help victims´ recovery process.
- As Hospital Alvarez is one of the three hospitals that have this program it gets many patients form Buenos Aires province as well.
- The program focuses on “emergency” cases, that is, cases in which the rape occurred within 72 hours of when the victim comes to the program offices
- Hospital Alvarez is the only public hospital in Argentina that investigates violence in its patients’ lives and incorporates the data into its clinical histories.
- Galimberti has a theory: " violence against women has to be a priority for health professionals"
Personal Reaction:
Argentina is the scenary of many rapes. However not many hospitals or clinics offer victims the right psychological counseling and help them prevent pregnancy and sexually transmited diseases.
However there are some exceptions. Hospital Alvarez, located in Flores designed a program that helps rape victims recover. The treatment consists on medication preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases as well as psychological help for as long as six months.
The hospital director copy the idea from similar brasilian programs. She also thinks violence against women has to be a priority for health professionals and it has not been like that so far.
Many of the cases donot get reported because of the low chances there are that the accused ends being sentenced.
The program focuses in cases where rape happened the 72 hours of when the victim comes to the offices. In cases where women come looking for help more than 72 hours after they got raped, they get referred to specialized centers.
My personal opinion about this topic is that other hospitals should follow the example of Hospital Alvarez and create programs to help rape victims. Though I think that what is more important is that government should do something to prevent rape cases and to make sure guilty man get sentenced into prison.
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