Although the Mental Health Plan of Valencia provides that each health area should have a children's mental health unit, the Marina Health Hospital He lacks it.
This unit, formed by a psychologist, a psychiatrist, a nurse and a social worker ensures the correct diagnosis of mental illness minors, programming necessary psychological interventions.
The socialist group in the city of Dénia has presented a motion that will also be presented in the rest of town councils of the region, in which it asks the Ministry of Health to start up this unit created in 2005 but that never worked and that today in day it is the responsibility of Marina Salud.
According to the councilor Vicenta Bixquert, "By not providing specialized attention to minors, their constitutional rights and the principle of equality with respect to the rest of the children of this Community are being violated, so the Socialists demand in the motion that the Department of Health, as the maximum responsible, ensure because Marina Salud of the necessary and regulated service in its Mental Health Plan ".
