Hospital GmbH goes swimming in Peißenberg with the health day
Created: 08/08/2022, 02:00 p.m
By: Bernhard Jepsen
In the course of the morning, a few more visitors came to the "Rigi-Rutsch'n".
Of course they were allowed to spin the quiz wheel of Wolfgang Tilgner (3rd from left) and his team.
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The whole week was bright summer weather with hot temperatures - and on Saturday, when the health day of the hospital GmbH was supposed to take place in Peißenberg, it was cold and wet.
Peißenberg
– With the support of the vocational school for nursing, the Weilheim-Schongau GmbH hospital in the district actually wanted to organize a health day in the “Rigi-Rutsch'n” on Saturday.
But the weather threw a spanner in the works.
Not a single visitor to the Rigi-Rutsch'n
The planned vital parameter measurements, the hygiene quiz, the face painting, the hoola hoop competition and the water aerobics courses fell victim to the drizzle.
After just one hour, the organizers packed up shortly after 10 a.m.
Up until then, not a single visitor had arrived at the “Rigi-Rutsch'n”.
On the other hand, Wolfgang Tilgner and his team from the health department were not deterred by the bad weather.
As part of the health day, the authority wanted to draw attention to the dangers of UV exposure in terms of "malignant skin diseases" - "and we are now going through with it despite the bad weather," explained Tilgner.
Under the motto "Sun(s) with sense, instead of sunburn", based on a campaign by various Bavarian state ministries, attempts were made to sensitize the few bathers to the problem and to do preventive work - especially with children.
Children and young people learn about sun protection
Children of pre-school and primary school age were allowed to spin a quiz wheel and playfully learn sensible behavior in the sun.
The issue is quite serious: Anyone who exposes their skin to the sun and its ultraviolet rays for too long and without protection not only risks acute effects such as sunburn and conjunctivitis, but also long-term effects such as faster skin aging, clouding of the lens in the eye and tumor diseases.
Tilgner announced that the sun protection campaign would soon be repeated again when the weather was nice and there was more resonance: "We may do that at Dietlhofer See in Weilheim."
