Spanish hospital introduces dogs in ICUs to improve patients' emotional well-being
STORY: Spanish hospital introduces dogs in ICUs to improve patients' emotional well-being
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 13, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 14, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:20
LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain
CATEGORY: HEALTH
SHOTLIST:
1. various of medical professionals with therapy dogs at the Hospital del Mar
2. various of the therapy process with dogs
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Catalan): ISABEL BUIL, Director of the Affinity Foundation
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Catalan): JOAN RAMON MASCLANS, Head of the intensive care service at Hospital del Mar
STORYLINE:
A project to improve the emotional well-being of patients by introducing therapy dogs into intensive care units (ICU) has been launched at Hospital del Mar in the Spanish city of Barcelona.
The joint project between the hospital's intensive care service and the Affinity Foundation, a non-profit that promotes the benefits of pets, is the first of its kind in Spain and uses dogs that were abandoned and retrained as therapy dogs.
SOUNDBITE 1 (Catalan): ISABEL BUIL, Director of the Affinity Fou
- Product Code
- ILEA001985597
- Registered date
- 2023/11/14 00:00:00
- Credit
- Xinhua / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Xinhua News Agency.All Rights Reserved
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