Hospital infant baby Jesus increased recreational activities during the summer.

-a promotional campaign for table games encourages the family relationship with the admitted children

-chronic patients with extended stays in the hospital does not lose as well contact with society

Spain, 2011-August the Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, following the line of humanization and normalization of the lives of children with long hospital stays of the Ministry of health, increases recreational activities during the summer. As in previous years, he launches a campaign of promotion of table games, thanks to the collaboration of Fundación Antena 3, to promote family relationship, because they are games that foster the relationship between different generations.

In addition, patients attending Hospital of day Oncology, medical and psychiatric, although they do not require income, also enjoy these activities as they spend much of the day at the Center for the treatment of medium and long term. For these patients, the activities focus on special workshops, usually of painting and crafts, taking place within their areas of hospitalization with Save the Children. The objective of standardizing and dramatize the life of the sick child can meet offering patient teaching and recreational alternatives to facilitate their personal development.

The rest of invitations to children and youth leisure is made possible by the wide range of activities scheduled from service to the patient. Planning a series of playful, creative activities and, in some cases, cultural, taking into account the ages of patients, up to 18 years, their tastes or requirements imposed by clinical issues, as immobility or the impossibility of leaving to common places.

In all these activities is essential to the collaboration of a group of volunteers of different associations and foundations that make possible the celebration of the birthday of the patients, access to a book by bibliocarro, shows in the theatre (every day at 6 p.m.), arts & crafts and workshops including the visit at the foot of the bed of a clown or magician, at times, even while still in the resuscitation room after leaving the operating room.

Table for the summer games

Five years ago the Antena 3 Foundation finances the acquisition and/or renovation of Board games that are offered to patients that they play with their family members or volunteers from different associations, during July and August. It’s playing to the oca, Parcheesi, checkers, cards, chess and Tic-Tac-Toe.

It is tradition that patients more play and transmit infected the mood for the rest, the Fundación Antena 3 reward them with the delivery of a Medal with which you want to recognize the merit of the effort.

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Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús is in public hospitals in Madrid, a pioneer in count among their benefits with a school during the school year allowing the child does not lose contact with school activities and can then continue their studies normally to join their lives normal.