- The hospitals of Torrevieja, Vinalopo, Torrejon, Povisa y Holy Fair adapt their humanization plan to make the stay of patients admitted for Coronavirus more comfortable
- Magazines, newspapers, hobbies, puzzles and the messages and drawings that are sent for the convalescents are also distributed.
The Ribera Salud centers have launched more than a dozen actions aimed at humanizing and making the stay of COVID patients more bearable and thanking the work of hospital professionals. Concerts by health personnel with extraordinary musical talent, video messages through tablets and WhatsApp in solidarity with citizens from all over Spain and family members and friends of patients, are some of these actions included in recent weeks in their Humanization Plan.
COVID patients also have the possibility of expressing their feelings and their experience during admission with drawings while mitigating loneliness and boredom with this proposal. For those who are in the ICU, the Ribera Salud hospitals have made available in recent weeks the Diary that is usually given to patients admitted to this unit in all its hospitals and which has a very special reception. This "ICU Diary" has become a tool that provides comfort to the most critical patients.
Thanks to the solidarity of a multitude of companies and publishing groups, the COVID patients of the Ribera Salud Hospitals, who have to be isolated, now receive newspapers, magazines, coloring books, hobbies and puzzles to make the hours and days more enjoyable Of income. In addition, the nursing staff and assistants bring you every day the messages, letters and drawings that we each receive on the web. rsc.riberasalud.com and through WhatsApp 628 998 586, on paper or through tablets that have also received generous donations from hospitals.
From Friday, patients can even receive a virtual visit from their pets, thus adapting the pet companionship program that several of the centers have to the COVID crisis, to facilitate the contact of owners with their companion animals during the income.
With regard to the messages and drawings that arrive via the web or WhatsApp, they are delivered to patients when they undergo routine check-ups or with the daily food tray. And if necessary, the staff reads the letters to them to make it easier for the messages sent to always reach them. "Anything to try to shorten their stay and encourage them in these moments that are not easy," they say from the Nursing addresses.
In several hospitals, spaces have also begun to be decorated with the drawings, letters and poems that arrive for patients and also for professionals, so that messages of encouragement surround them in their daily lives during this global pandemic.
