Children’s Hospital, Santa Claus comes from above and touches the windows (but does not enter)



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Not only rescuing injured hikers and searching for the disappeared in the most disparate inaccessible environments, this time the technicians of the Sicilian Alpine and Speleological Rescue (Palermo-Madonie station) have dedicated themselves to solidarity, giving the little ones a few minutes of ease. patients of the Di Cristina pediatric hospital.

In accordance with the health management of the hospital and in full compliance with the anti-Covid regulations, ten Sass technicians disguised as Santa Claus descended from the terrace of the Biondo pavilion, to avoid any contact with the children and the staff of the wards. “Visited” simply knocked on the windowpanes displaying greeting signs. “For once we wanted to deviate from our institutional duties to offer a few moments of serenity to hospitalized children at a particularly difficult time like the one we are experiencing due to the pandemic. We would have liked to distribute sweets and toys but, complying with the anti-Covid regulations, we limited ourselves to carrying a message of good wishes through the windows ”.

For his part, the general director of Arnas Civico Di Cristina Benfratelli, Roberto Colletti, spoke of “an initiative that seeks to bring normality to a time of great difficulty.” “Children – underlined the manager – have the right to a more humane care than adults and that is why we felt that the little patients hospitalized in our wards during the Christmas holidays needed to live them in a more serene way by bringing them the greetings of Santa. Christmas comes from above. “

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