This Teddy Bear Clinic In Belgium Helps Children Overcome Their Hospital Fear In The Cutest Way
The “Teddy Bears’ Clinic” has been operating for more than 10 years and has treated more than 6,000 toys since 2012.
At the “Teddy Bear Clinic” in Belgium’s capital, Brussels, children are the doctors, finding treatments for their favorite toys.
Hundreds of children aged from four to seven years old bring their toys in for a check-up at the “Teddy Bear Clinic” run by medical students.
One girl said her dog toy came in because it had an earache and a “sweetie in her ear”.
Depending on their illnesses, toys can then undergo x-rays and even operations.
Footage of the event showed soon-to-be doctors and children performing “surgeries” side by side.
The “Teddy Bears’ Clinic” has been operating for more than 10 years and has treated more than 6,000 toys since 2012.
The idea for the workshop originated in Germany and aims to reduce fear with medical play.
“Coming to the ‘Teddy Bears’ Clinic’ allows [children] to discover the world of medicine, to understand how it works, to talk to health professionals in a playful context where they’re not patients but just accompanying them,” the organizer of the clinic and paediatric nurse, Laurine Anselmo, told Reuters.
