Family rooms at the Children's Clinical Hospital UCC MUW are open again

Little patients of the hospital on Żwirki i Wigury Street and their parents can again use friendly spaces created especially for them on the premises of the facility. Due to the coronavirus pandemic and sanitary-epidemiological restrictions, family rooms remained closed for a long time. Now the volunteers of the Ronald McDonald Foundation are inviting the public to join them for fun, integration and workshops. All this is done to make the stay at the UCC MUW facility more pleasant for the young patients and to enable them to spend time close to their families.

- The Ronald McDonald Family Rooms at the Children's Clinical Hospital UCC MUW are places where patients can forget about treatment, pain and tears, at least for a while, and spend time together with their parents having fun. This is all the more important because, as research shows, the healing process is faster and more effective when the family is close to the sick child - says Agata Ciesielska from the Ronald McDonald Foundation, which operates at the hospital.

As Dr. Monika Wanke-Rytt, Vice Head of Treatment at UCC MUW, Department of Pediatrics with Observation Unit, said during the conference "For the family to be together - the role of family proximity during a child's stay in the hospital," the importance of a parent's presence in the reality of the hospital cannot be overestimated. Touch has an anti-stress effect, making the hospitalized child calmer. Studies show that under the influence of a parent's affectionate touch and closeness, growth hormones and endorphins - chemicals that offset stress levels - are released in the baby's brain. A calmer child is easily treated, and an easier-treated child goes home faster.

Rooms for families at the Children's Clinical Hospital UCC MUW have been in operation since 2015.