As the sports world mobilizes to help fight the coronavirus epidemic, LOSC has also decided to act. Monday, the Lille club announced to partner with the Boulanger Foundation to collect connected objects for hospitals. This initiative, carried out in collaboration with the Fondation des Hôpitaux de France, will enable "the dispatch and distribution in the very short term of several thousand tablets equipped for videoconferencing intended for isolated people in hospitals and nursing homes", can we read in the LOSC press release.
Faced with the pandemic, the LOSC and its main partner @boulanger are joining forces to help healthcare workers, patients and the elderly isolated from their families. # UnMondeDeLiens # SiBienEnsemblehttps: //t.co/xRliLncUjNpic.twitter.com/Bo8n1dRJzt
- LOSC (@losclive) March 30, 2020Due to confinement, visits to these hospitals are prohibited and some patients cannot afford to be equipped to communicate with their loved ones. "These tablets will allow isolated patients to maintain the link with their families and their environment," explains the Lille club, before adding: "They can also serve as therapeutic supports to provide psychological support to hospitalized, fragile and isolated people." . "
The LOSC also appealed for the generosity of its supporters to make donations to the Fondation des Hôpitaux de France. "Each donation will finance the equipment of new digital tablets, the need for which is estimated at several tens of thousands of devices," concludes the press release.
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