The Conservatory of Music of San Javier has launched a Music Therapy project at the Los Arcos University General Hospital in the Mar Menor, which is already bearing fruit in the Intensive Care Unit, as the mayor, José Miguel Luengo, and the Councilor for Education Catalina Pérez in her view of the Hospital accompanied by its director María Jesús Soriano, the manager of the Center, Tomás Salvador and those responsible for the project in the Conservatory, its director Francisco Javier Martínez and the teacher and music therapist Jesús Sivianes.
The project, which has the support of the City of San Javier and has been well received in the Hospital, has started in the ICU where the professor of Music Conservatory and Jesus Sivianes has been integrated as one more member of the team.
With his guitar and dependent on the profile of the patient, Jesus Sivianes uses music in a therapeutic way interacting with patients with whom he even composes new melodies.
The Conservatory's idea of ​​bringing music therapy to the hospital was integrated from the outset into the H-UCI (Humanizing Intensive Care) project in which the hospital center is immersed, to provide a more comfortable stay in the ICU.
The heads of the three institutions took advantage of the visit to discuss the development of the music therapy project to be completed with periodic live concerts of teachers, students and musicians who join this initiative in different points of the Hospital for which a A volunteer network that already has numerous registrations, as confirmed by the coordinator Francisco Javier Martínez.
The therapy includes the musical thread that can sound in different areas of the hospital center that is being designed from the Conservatory.
The project is also born with the vocation to continue growing to bring music therapy to other places such as the municipal centers of the municipality on a regular basis.
The mayor of San Javier José Miguel Luengo expressed "full support" of the City to this initiative for which he congratulated the Conservatory "which is becoming an essential element of social cohesion in the municipality."
Likewise, the hospital manager Tomás Salvador showed his enthusiasm for this project that complements other actions that are being carried out with the objective of humanizing the ICU, within the national H-UCI project.
Conservatory director and project coordinator Francisco Javier Martínez thanked the reception and noted that the Conservatory "is not a factory of instrumentalists but a school of values" that also must develop initiatives that show students a vital experience through music Out of the classroom.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier