M“EDICINMA is part of my life,” says 12 -year -old Lucas Ray Cherine. “It takes me away from what is happening.” Lucas would have gone to offers by the charity, which creates, installs and operates cinemas in hospitals, because before he could speak. His mother, Melanie, was in front of the stroller in front of the screen for a break from the newborn unit. On Sunday, this charitable charity will receive the distinguished British joint stock in the Film Award in Pavas.
Medicinema Lucas – who spent a large part of his childhood at the Royal Glasgow Children’s Hospital, helped after he was born with a very rare chromosome disorder, which means that he could not eat or drink – to admire the committed film.
He even made his jamp jam from feeling a sequel of his blue coat to display a special inspection in Badtington in Peru last November, unaware that a sudden guest, Hugh Bonville, who plays the role of Mr. Brown, was appearing.
But for Lucas, the best thing about Medicinema is volunteers who bring patients from the wings and keep them in the shows. “One person Billy is in his eighties and we were friends throughout the ages,” says Lucas. “It allows me to help him in his jobs, allows me to take the record and take tickets. Then we sit together and we have to catch up with the knees before the movie begins.”
Last Monday, at approximately 5.45 pm, Billy Roden and four other volunteers were waiting at the entrance to the cinema designed for this purpose, with rainbow seats and a clear area in front of the garden beds, wheelchairs and fourth drops.
“I love it,” said Roden, who volunteered to the Charitable Society 16 years ago. “You see the expression on their faces, especially those who are in the hospital for several months at a time, and they must do something normal for a few hours.”
When children and their care providers began to reach the Caper comedy examination Dog (Based on the greatly famous DAV PilKey series), Rodden toured the graduated seats, stopping five years here and there
The audience consists of all ages, treatment stages and pajamas patterns. Everything about the space copies of the normal cinema copies – comfortable seats that may encourage one or two parents to the gesture; It includes darkness, and requires volunteers and nurses who attended the use of torches when helping the toilet visits; The peripheral sound and vocal control to ensure that the nearby wings are not disturbed.
In fact, the only difference between this and a commercial examination is the lack of aft of snack bundles, or a comprehensive policy so that those who fast or on restricted diets do not feel.
Many young parents are accompanied by their parents. “The first time we went, it was more than an elevator for me,” says Melanie, Lucas’s mother.
“But with the passage of years, the employees became his friends. They have known him since he was a child and watched him growing up. They went through all his features with me.”
Lucas was also diagnosed with autism at the age of three. “Now the volunteers print his schedule because he enjoys the routine. They take a lot of time with him and separate from his day.”
“Children have their own rooms on wings, but they can feel completely isolated,” says Kate Thompson, director of cinema. “Here, they can see other children in the hospital, some of them make friendships and you can really say it is changing their day.”
Tomson says offers also provides an opportunity for parents and patients together as a family. There are special views of teenagers and teenagers who suffer from immunodeficiency that can bring school girlfriends to watch a movie before its release of cinema: “This makes them feel cold, which I imagine is not something they feel in the hospital.”
The idea of Medicinema came in 1996, when the founder of the Christine Hill Foundation was inspired after seeing the nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London, whipping patients abroad in their family to see the boats that pass on the Thames.
The first medicinema was opened in Stomas’ in 1999 and was new to Alder Hey in Liverpool last November. There are now six cinemas in hospitals throughout England and Scotland, with the new drugs that will come to them soon.
Great Ormond Street in London and Oxford Road Haram at Manchester University NHS Confidence – the biggest confidence in the United Kingdom. The cinema works without any cost on NHS and in a partnership with charities of local hospitals. Medicinema’s ambition is to become a national charity with its screens in every NHS region.
CEO Colin Lawrence hopes to accelerate an “incredible” Pavta with this ambition. “It is a simple concept that we are able to develop a profound impact in a deep way for patients.”
“When you walk to Medicinema, do not feel that you are in the hospital anymore. You enjoy something that everyone in the outside world can reach and this is very empowering.”
“Not only does it bring the movie, as it takes you to a place you may not be able to reach it physically, but it reduces tension, changes the mood of people and you can create contacts with parents or other patients.”
Lawrence says that non -medical volunteers facilitate patient visits are vital for the entire experiment, such as hospital staff.
“You have someone who is not part of the hospital environment, comes to your wing, and talks to you about the movie that says:“ We can make this easy for you. ”This gives people a feeling of proxy, right? There is a human conversation to humanity with someone who sees you as another person And not as a bed.
This is exactly the phrase Claire Beit Wikhamor, who is 27 -year -old about her special experience in Medicinema in Guy’s and ST Thomas, where she received a treatment for internal patients for lymphoma other than Hodgkin for 12 weeks.
“It has really become a lifeline for me.” The guitar teacher and the performer who was cancer -free for 18 months says: “I could not work as an ordinary human being, and sometimes I felt isolated, saddened and angry incredibly.”
On her first visit, I expected “a few chairs and a display. I didn’t expect a built -in Odion.”
“Volunteers and employees got acquainted with the conditions of the first name and asked about your life outside the hospital. It was really reassuring to be known as Clair, who is an individual instead of the bed number.”
For Nathan Ascio, the chief nursing employee in Aler Hi, the charitable organization allows employees to build a more relaxed relationship with patients as well as get some fun. “He works hard with NHS at times, and this is a beautiful way to use your nursing skills. Children and their families see you in a different role when you are a nurse intended for them in the wing, and it is in fact a postponement process for everyone.”
“The beauty of Medicinema is that he can do many different things,” says Astyo, who has been working with the charity since she opened a cinema in Saint Thomas. “For older patients, they will perform silver shows, where you can see a completely confused person with dementia with a period of relative calm through the experience of the movie and music. Then there may be a show for a group of young people who have the same condition, as the Stoma bag, which may be from It is difficult to talk about. “
“You can provide a truly specially designed experience, so this may be someone at the end of his life that can have his family around them to watch a movie. At the other end of the scale, I got a full escape. The film exceeds all ages, all cultures, and all the backgrounds – it’s Really strong.
