At Montpellier University Hospital, the coming of Santa Claus is everyone’s business

The staff, caregivers or not, are 100% involved. Free Midi – DORIAN CAYUELA

Tout juste débarqué, l’homme en rouge entame sa distribution. Midi Libre – DORIAN CAYUELA

Depuis deux mois, le personnel a préparé cette journée un peu spéciale.

It’s a (necessarily) popular meeting. Every year at this time, the arrival of Santa Claus at the CHU is, for the little patients hospitalized there, a rather nice interlude.

This Thursday, December 21, the bearded man, red from head to toe, did not deviate from tradition. But to get there, it took the staff no less than two months to imagine, refine and put to music the unique meeting.

Pediatric surgery, neuro-pediatrics, neonatology, continuing care genetics lab, hematology or hospital service workers: everyone pitched in.

In the end this gives a show of sixteen numbers (given in the hall of Arnaud-de-Villeneuve) for an hour and a half before a tour of the services to distribute the gifts offered by several dozen ;rsquo;associations. In short, a large piece of machinery whose visible side then becomes an emotional elevator.

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