A hoy existen enfermos en habationes des Hospitales que no reciben visits. The difficulty of conclude the working agenda with the schedule of visits to the hospitals continues to be a complication for many families intending to provide a home to accompany elderly patients. In this context, the pandemic has a handicap for all those efforts that intentionally change this situation and the COVID protocols exist in the news suponen a freno that promises more soledad.
With the aim of the pillar this carencia, nation the young Juntos Commanding by the World, which is consolidated three years ago at a meeting of friends and who, on a high day, collaborated on volunteer work with hospitals and residences of the Sierra Oeste of Madrid and the capital.
Making a company in long-distance media is an experience that allows you to establish a connection between the patient and the volunteer that is most important to you. Ana María Sobrino, one of the co-founders of Juntos Caminando por el Mundo, explained to Gaceta Médica el lazo that is created with patients, with only a weekly visit to hospitals or in the home providers.
Volunteer training
“In the hospital ward or in the residences there is a building that crosses the gates of the dwelling”, indicates Ana, who stops the importance of being able to do another type of activity, selling the room in the hospital or including having a person with the they create un special wine.
“Our visits from a lot of allegory to the sick, we can take the illusion in their mirrors when we come to the door”
Ana María Sobrino, co-founder of Juntos Caminando por el Mundo
To be able to establish this relationship with the patient, intentionally Relationships with volunteers according to their qualities, his personality and his desires to create a lovely entourage during his visits. On this line, we organize different types of activities such as reading, manuals, poetry or theaters.
In this context, Ana también destaca the importance of the training of volunteers in assisted practice: “I have volunteered to be part of volunteering for the purpose of having basic knowledge that is necessary to transmit in order not to injure the people”.
For this, the group of volunteers is always in contact with the doctors to establish each activity of the more form adapted to each disease and does not interfere with the work of the sanitary professionals.
“Gestures as basic as having a water vase can be a problem if this person needs a lot to eat,” he explained.
Expansion by the Community of Madrid
The entity is currently working on the Virgen de la Poveda Hospital, and Villa del Prado, y en la residence of ancient ‘Virgen de la Nueva’ of San Martin de Valdeiglesias, both in the Community of Madrid. Since then, many families have ten patients in this area of the Madrilean region and can not be transferred to the diary to visit their extended families, because the volunteer work is consolidated as a support for many of the residents.
In order to expand its intentions to expand into other hospitals and to own capital through more voluntary employment, the pandemic has slowed this process. Sin embargo, the context is not a frenado a la ong para help nurses at the Emergency Hospital Nursing Isabel Zendal and the QuirónSalud group received telephone calls.
Asimismo, with the support of COVID-19, the volunteer group tuvo que reinventarse y eiercer otras labores like the transfer of medicines, food or the elaboration of protective equipment during the most difficult months of the pandemic.
One of the aspects that most calls the attention of the Juntos Caminando volunteer group is the media of the people who integrate the collective: 25 years, in this way the ong account with persons alcanzan casi the 70 years and including minor de edad. Without embarrassment, Ana signals the motivation and illusion to accompany the children is a race that characterizes all loswillarios.
A hoy existen enfermos en habationes des Hospitales que no reciben visits. By this, the confounder animates the characters to intention own the volunteer at any moment of his life because “enriquece y porto much more than any of the people you know can during their visits”.
