Adoption stories from India that could, and should, have been just one of joy

The husband of the Florentine couple, who was stranded for days in India, is serious for Covid. Another couple faced an odyssey to return. While LIAN's appeal to vaccinate the few hundred adoptive couples already matched with a child remained unheard

For a few days, the news of the couple of adoptive parents blocked in India with their daughter, who fell ill with Covid, had filled the pages of all the newspapers. Then, as always happens, other priorities have made the issue a little forgotten, also thanks to the fact that we finally managed to return to Italy.

The husband of the adoptive couple blocked for days in India is serious for Covid

But the question is far from closed, indeed: it is news these days that the couple's husband is hospitalized in serious conditions at the Careggi Hospital. If in India, in fact, it was the wife who caused the greatest concern, once they returned to Italy it was the husband who worsened. “My daughter tested positive for Meyer - said her adoptive mother Simonetta Filippi to la Repubblica - but she has always been asymptomatic. She's fine, the Meyer's staff have been wonderful with her ”. The husband, on the other hand, causes concern. Al Careggi arrived in respiratory block and is now undergoing various therapies to try to improve the situation. “Fortunately - continues Simonetta - we returned to Italy just in time".

Waits, bans and special permits to go home as a new family

Also from India comes the news of another couple, finally back home with their new 2-year-old daughter after 11 days of odyssey. The story is reported by the newspaper Avvenire , which tells how Monica Del Duca and her husband Anthony had flown to Calcutta from Genoa but, once there, with the deterioration of health conditions, it was impossible to leave the country, especially for her husband. holding Indian passport.

Despite the difficulties, however, the adoptive path was completed and, thanks to a special permit for humanitarian reasons, issued by the Ministry of Health, Anthony was also authorized to board the plane that brought the new family back to Italy.

LIAN's unheard call to vaccinate adoptive couples already matched to a foreign child

Two stories with a different ending, at least for the moment, and which we hope will soon find a happily common ending , but which could have both been avoided or, if nothing else, had a less bumpy path: If only the appeal launched had been accepted from LIAN - says Marco Griffini , president of Ai.Bi. Amici dei Bambini - to vaccinate these wonderful families , who set out to challenge the pandemic with total disregard for the institutions. A few hundred vaccines would have been enough to not make these couples risk , just as a few million would be enough to support them economically: they are couples who do the greatest act of justice that a person can ever do in their life: to restore the dignity of a child to an abandoned child ! ".

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