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VIPITENO. Whether or not it is a go to to their grandparents’ hospital, an sickness within the household or an upcoming go to for his or her annual check-up, most girls and boys come into contact with the healthcare system at an early age. However let’s be sincere… who likes going to the physician?
To assist ladies and boys overcome the concern of going to the physician, the Paediatrics Division of the Vipiteno Hospital, in collaboration with the hospital faculty and the White Cross, is bringing the “Teddy Clinic” venture at the next degree, inviting the first colleges of Vipiteno to take part.
“Like final yr, the concept and likewise the target of this venture is to assist kids overcome their concern of docs and hospitals in a playful approach. That is accomplished by contact with medication, creating belief and arousing a sure curiosity in order that the hospital go to stays a constructive reminiscence. Perhaps one or two children may even be fascinated with a profession in healthcare,” he says Micòl Conthead of pediatrics in Vipiteno.
Throughout a go to to the Vipiteno Hospital, ladies and boys with their “sick” stuffed animals had been capable of expertise firsthand each day life inside a hospital facility.
The little ones put themselves of their dad and mom’ footwear e docs have changed into “Teddydocs”, caring for the teddy bears with nice dedication. On this approach, they had been capable of expertise a doctor-patient state of affairs with out concern and with out being examined personally. The process adopted the identical steps as a session within the pediatric workplace.
Main Cont additionally defined the academic position of the venture: “Teddydocs are additionally meant to offer a easy and playful introduction to human anatomy and its features. Moreover, we present kids tips on how to behave appropriately in case of small accidents akin to when a nostril bleeds or in case of grazes.”
To start with, they had been document the signs of the stuffed animal by answering the medical historical past questionnaire, in order that the suitable checks might be carried out.
Il blood and urine of teddy bears had been despatched to the laboratory for evaluation. Diagnostic imaging was used to analysis the causes of the illness utilizing X-ray, CT and ECG tools created by hand, in order that the gentle toys might obtain the suitable diagnoses. Naturally, ladies and boys actively contributed to all of the exams.
Even the dentist Ricarda Berlin was the protagonist of this yr’s “Teddy Clinic”, displaying younger friends tips on how to brush their enamel appropriately: “90% of youngsters with wholesome child enamel keep this situation for the remainder of their lives,” stated Berlin.
After the go to to the “Teddy Clinic”, ladies and boys had been capable of go upstairs aboard the White Cross ambulance and ask questions of emergency providers personnel.
(photograph South Tyrol Well being Authority)
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