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Bibliotherapy in the hospital (06/06/2014)

Bibliohospital service has renewed its titles for the summer with funds from the municipal library every Wednesday a group of volunteers distributed among patients admitted to the University Hospital Los Arcos del Mar Menor, in San Javier.

A book in Spanish, English and German, have added titles in French and scientific journals.

The service, which operates from 8 months ago, with great success, is a mobile cart, laden with books that volunteers carry door to door offering a book to patients for free.

Once ejemplare read are returned in the control units of each plant, where volunteers collected.

The initiative has proved to be an exercise of bibliotherapy, based on a reading therapy, was an initiative of the Reading Club Library San Javier, who finished translating into an agreement between the City of San Javier and Hospital.

Actualment, the service manages the library of San Javier, and Time Bank is in charge of volunteering with eleven people dedicated to developing the initiative.

The average loan in each day is 35 units.

In general it is not very long books, given the length of hospital whose average is 2 or 3 days, and whose contents are capable of mitigating the effects of the disease or the fact of being hospitalized.

The books that populate the mobile cart, come from grants received by the library and equity.

The bibliohospital, from the library of San Javier is especially pleased, found in the leaves of income of the hospital, so that patients and families are aware of their existence, and all the hospital staff, who also works in performance.

Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier

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