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An agreement between the City of San Javier and Los Arcos hospital, and a group of volunteers do actually a free service loans books to patients and families at the hospital operated successfully for two years
The Department of Culture and Volunteer today held with volunteers who perform service Bibliohospital hospital in the Los Arcos del Mar Menor two years of existence of this unique and pioneering initiative in the region that operates through an agreement between the City of San Javier and Los Arcos Hospital Universitario del Mar Menor, from November 2013.
The service bibiohospital is run by a group of volunteers Reading Club Library San Javier, where the idea of ​​its implementation arises, and Bank local time every Wednesday of the year, pick your "bibliocarro" with 250 copies of books and magazines outreach to tour the rooms of the clinic offering reading to patients and their families, and even medical personnel, which also makes use of this service, explained Marisol Alvarez, one of the volunteers.
"Volunteers put in this our time and our heart," said Marisol Alvarez which together with the councilors of Culture, David Martinez, Volunteer, Kitty Perez, the assistant director of nursing at the hospital, Remedios Alonso and social worker at the health center, Maui Barcelo, took stock of this initiative "that fills us with pride by reading to contribute to the improvement of the sick," said the mayor of Culture.
At present there are about 16 volunteers who take care of Bibliohospital which last year paid about 1,000 copies, among them novels as "Like Water for Chocolate", "South Seas" and "The Blind Sunflowers" that they are among the most borrowed.
They also carry children's books, children's literature, and titles in English, French and German, with informative magazines.
The Bibliohospital, and contribute to improving the quality of stay of patients and relatives in the hospital, also based on bibliotherapy, convinced that literature has a healing power over people.
It also helps to mitigate the loneliness of the patient, said the Deputy Director of Nursing, Remedios Alonso which coincided with the social worker at the hospital, Maui Barceló noting that this initiative is "proof that the cooperation between two public administrations and voluntary participation can improve citizen services. "
Meanwhile Councillor Volunteer, Kitty Perez recalled that also from the Time Bank, which administered the time people are willing to give it to others in the town, you can participate in this initiative "that fills us proud to develop to be especially rewarding for both the recipients and for the volunteers themselves. "
The welcome and service acceptance is precisely the reward that leaves satisfied volunteers, Marisol Alvarez said that with his teammates celebrated with a breakfast on a terrace in the Plaza of Spain, his two years at the Bibliohospital.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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