400 sick cuddly toys treated: Munich's "Teddy Bear Hospital" should take away children's fears
Created: 11/29/2022, 9:36 am
By: Tanja Kipke
Just like in the operating room: A teddy is being treated with the help of the children.
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X-ray bee, operating room, ambulance: Munich medical students treated 400 sick stuffed animals and dolls in the "Teddy Bear Hospital" in Schwabing.
Munich - A "teddy hospital in the hospital": For three days, medical students from the LMU and TU organized a very special experience for kindergarten children in the Munich Klinikum Schwabing.
The "Teddy Bear Hospital" is intended to take away the fear of "white coats" and the unfamiliar surroundings in hospitals and doctors' surgeries in preschool children in a playful way.
To do this, the little ones went through various stations with their cuddly toys as patients.
Colorful program in the “Teddy Bear Hospital”: the patients are cuddly toys
Around 400 kindergarten children, together with the voluntary organizers, treated the teddy bears, stuffed animals and dolls they had brought with them.
"It is impressive to see what the teddy doctors have achieved here in Schwabing," said Julia Hauer, chief physician at the Munich Clinic's Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, in a statement.
A calf in the x-ray bee and a teddy under the lamp.
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The campaign enabled the children to familiarize themselves with the procedures at the doctor's or in the hospital while they accompanied their sick or injured cuddly toy through the procedure at the doctor's: from being admitted to waiting in the waiting room to examination, diagnosis and treatment.
Without being a patient themselves, they also got to know x-rays and operations and were able to help put on bandages.
Campaign teddy clinic in Munich: Children are allowed to climb into ambulances
A highlight of the program for many children was the ambulance.
Teams from the MKT rescue service showed the kindergarten children how the patients arrive in the hospital and what equipment is in the ambulance.
The cooperation with Munich pharmacy and dentistry students finally made it possible to visit the pharmacy and carry out a routine check in the dental clinic.
In two ambulances, teams from the MKT rescue service showed the children how the patients arrived at the hospital.
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"This is a very important and responsible contribution that future colleagues are already making here during their studies," says Hauer, pleased about the students' commitment.
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