- Title: Jerusalem hospital offers education and medical care
- Date: 23rd November 2016
- Summary: JERUSALEM (NOVEMBER 21, 2016) (REUTERS) TEACHER AT AUGUSTA VICTORIA HOSPITAL, SAMAR ABU SARA, HELPING A CHILD PATIENT ENTER THE CLASSROOM SIGN AT CLASSROOM DOOR READING IN ENGLISH "WELCOME TO OUR SCHOOL" VARIOUS OF ABU SARA TEACHING CHILDREN SIGN IN CLASSROOM READING IN ARABIC AND ENGLISH "STATE OF PALESTINE" AND READING IN ARABIC "THE OPENING OF AL-MOTALA SCHOOL" CHILD IN CLASSROOM (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TEACHER, SAMAR ABU SARA, SAYING: "The goal is to make up for the ill students who come to the hospital (for treatment) instead of going to school. So we help them to continue their education year by filling in what they miss in school, we continue with them in the hospital as if they are attending their studies in the school." HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT FOR CHILD AND A DOLL MOVING IN FRONT OF IT USED BY TEACHER ABU SARA USING DOLL TO TEACH CHILDREN HAND OF CHILD PATIENT CHILD PATIENT SITTING IN CLASSROOM (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TEACHER, SAMAR ABU SARA, SAYING: "The level of concentration for the ill students is less than the normal students, when they are in the school, as a result of their illness the treatment effects their concentration, their skills and even their muscles. Their muscles are a bit weaker, that's why, we use various strategies, methods and techniques in the teaching process to motivate these children to study more." EXTERIOR OF PAEDIATRIC KIDNEY UNIT SIGN READING IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC "PAEDIATRIC ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY UNIT" VARIOUS OF TEACHER AT AUGUSTA VICTORIA HOSPITAL, HIBA SINOQROT, TEACHING A CHILD PATIENT (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TEACHER, HIBA SINOQROT, SAYING: "The difference in teaching here is that we change for them (ill students) the atmosphere in the hospital because they are surrounded all the time by nurses, doctors and other patients. They like to have some change because they get bored and they get exhausted, so we create a school atmosphere, as if they are not at the hospital but at school, also they miss a lot of lessons when they are not at school because they come here for dialysis for six hours and sometimes three hours, so any lesson they miss we are here to teach them." CHILD PATIENT WRITING IN SCHOOL BOOK SINOQROT TEACHING CHILD (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) CHILD PATIENT, AMANI ZAKI, SAYING: "I come here Monday, Saturday and Wednesday and study a bit and I really love it (the school)." TEACHERS WITH CHILDREN TEACHER TEACHING A CHILD NURSE BLOUSE POCKET WITH WRITING IN ARABIC AND ENGLISH "AUGUSTA VICTORIA HOSPITAL" HEAD OF NURSING STAFF AT CHILDREN'S PAEDIATRIC DEPARTMENT, MOHAMMAD KABAJA, AT DESK (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HEAD OF NURSING STAFF AT CHILDREN PAEDIATRIC DEPARTMENT, MOHAMMAD KABAJA, SAYING: "The stress that the students and their parents experience during their stay at the hospital because of them missing school (is less now by) having this school at the hospital, which is really helping us when it comes to the psychological condition for the students and their relatives and how they act. This really helped us a lot on how the patients are responding to the treatment and how they are keeping their dreams and thinking about their future by continuing their studies without any break.'' EXTERIOR OF AUGUSTA VICTORIA HOSPITAL
- Embargoed: 8th December 2016 11:58
- Keywords: Jerusalem school education learning
- Location: JERUSALEM
- City: JERUSALEM
- Country: Jerusalem
- Topics: Health/Medicine
- Reuters ID: LVA00159NYCT1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: At a Jerusalem hospital children receiving treatment here can also continue with their studies.
Many of the young patients are being treated for serious conditions, resulting in them spending a lot of time in hospital and missing out on school.
Now at the Augusta Victoria Hospital a classroom has been set up to enable youngsters to attend lessons.
Samar Abu Sara is one of the three teachers at the hospital school, she says that lessons are adapted taking into account each child's health condition.
"The goal is to make up for the ill students who come to the hospital (for treatment) instead of going to school. So we help them to continue their education year by filling in what they miss in school, we continue with them in the hospital as if they are attending their studies in the school,'' she said.
"The level of concentration for the ill students is less than the normal students, when they are in the school, as a result of their illness the treatment effects their concentration, their skills and even their muscles. Their muscles are a bit weaker, that's why, we use various strategies, methods and techniques in the teaching process to motivate these children to study more,'' she added.
The school isn't just about being taught how to read and write, it offers both the parents and children respite from a clinical environment.
"The difference in teaching here is that we change for them (ill students) the atmosphere in the hospital because they are surrounded all the time by nurses, doctors and other patients. They like to have some change because they get bored and they get exhausted, so we create a school atmosphere, as if they are not at the hospital but at school, also they miss a lot of lessons when they are not at school because they come here for dialysis for six hours and sometimes three hours, so any lesson they miss we are here to teach them,'' explained another teacher Hiba Sinoqrot.
Seven-year old patient Aman Zaki spends much of her week in the paediatric kidney unit.
"I come here Monday, Saturday and Wednesday and study a bit and I really love it (the school),'' she said.
Among the subjects taught at the school are Arabic, English, Science and Maths.
"The stress that the students and their parents experience during their stay at the hospital because of them missing school (is less now by) having this school at the hospital, which is really helping us when it comes to the psychological condition for the students and their relatives and how they act. This really helped us a lot on how the patients are responding to the treatment and how they are keeping their dreams and thinking about their future by continuing their studies without any break,'' explained head of the nursing staff in the paediatric unit, Mohammad Kabaja.
The school was founded by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and the hospital, also known as Al-Motala.
Dozens of children from the renal and cancer departments are said to benefit from the classes which guarantee them an education and access to healthcare. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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