["Children cannot wait": why mothers seek urgency and emergency care services for their children in non-urgent situations].

The scope of this article is to seek to understand the reasons why mothers seek urgency and emergency attention for children in non-urgent situations in a public hospital of the Unified Health System in Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais. It is a study involving a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews as the data collection tool. Twenty-seven mothers of children with complaints classified as minor and non-urgent were interviewed.