‘Clownselors’ engage with ailing kids, elderly persons to help them heal- The New Indian Express

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Singing rhymes and dancing, they stroll by the wards of a youngsters’s hospital within the nationwide capital each week, whereas sufferers, their mother and father and caregivers cheer and clap.

They’re the ‘medical clownselors’, a bunch of volunteers who costume up as clowns, and so they go to the wards of Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya in Geeta Colony in east Delhi each Saturday.

Coming from completely different walks of life, they make all-out efforts to unfold pleasure within the pensive and at occasions intimidating environs of the hospital.

They name themselves ‘medical clownselors’, a mix of clown and counsellor.

They arrive to this pediatric hospital on Saturdays and interact with ailing children, their family members and nursing employees by their humourous acts.

Clownselors is the brainchild of Sheetal Agarwal, a local of Hisar in Haryana, who began medical clowning in July 2016 within the nationwide capital.

“My obsession with smiles led me on this journey. I met Dhara in Ahmedabad in one of many retreats the place she launched herself as a medical clown. I used to be intrigued, got here again and looked for what’s it. I discovered the entire idea fascinating and wished to expertise the enjoyment of sharing smiles with those who want it essentially the most. Nobody was doing this in Delhi and I actually wished to. That is how Clownselors Basis (a not-for-profit organisation) was born,” Agarwal informed PTI.

We have been fortunate to start out our work with Delhi’s Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya as it’s a hospital for youngsters.

“Because the first clowning, we’ve got had experiences the place mother and father shed tears of happiness seeing their baby smile or eat after many days. The response has been overwhelming,” stated Agarwal.

Clownselors go to hospitals, old-age houses, faculties and company workplaces for stress administration.

“After we make youngsters giggle with our humorous acts, it helps in rising their immunity as nicely,” stated Abhishek Bansal, who works with a personal agency in Noida and engages in medical clowning on the hospital on Saturdays.

Echoing related views, Komal Touranni, a Delhi College scholar and a mediclowner, stated medical clowning additionally acts as a distraction remedy for sufferers.

Medical clowning bridges the hole between offering take care of bodily well being and psychological well being in hospital settings, based on the clownselors.

Not only for the youngsters being handled within the hospital, however for his or her guardians and nursing employees, medical clowning comes as an enormous reduction because it helps in decreasing stress and anxiousness, Sarthak Gandhi, one other mediclowner, famous.

“It feels good to look at them (clownselors) carry out,” stated Anita, a affected person’s mom. It helps lighten the temper as individuals are usually in stress in hospital, she added.

“These volunteers come to this hospital each Saturday and make folks giggle by their act,” Gurjeet, a nurse on the hospital, stated.

One other medical clowner Simran Juneja expressed happiness in being a part of this initiative.

“I’ve been a clownselor for the previous over three years. I discover that this remedy appears to be engaged on the sufferers,” Juneja stated.

<br /> NEW DELHI: Singing rhymes and dancing, they stroll by the wards of a youngsters’s hospital within the nationwide capital each week, whereas sufferers, their mother and father and caregivers cheer and clap.</p> <p>They’re the ‘medical clownselors’, a bunch of volunteers who costume up as clowns, and so they go to the wards of Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya in Geeta Colony in east Delhi each Saturday.</p> <p>Coming from completely different walks of life, they make all-out efforts to unfold pleasure within the pensive and at occasions intimidating environs of the hospital.</p> <p>They name themselves ‘medical clownselors’, a mix of clown and counsellor.</p> <p>They arrive to this pediatric hospital on Saturdays and interact with ailing children, their family members and nursing employees by their humourous acts.</p> <p>Clownselors is the brainchild of Sheetal Agarwal, a local of Hisar in Haryana, who began medical clowning in July 2016 within the nationwide capital.</p> <p>“My obsession with smiles led me on this journey. I met Dhara in Ahmedabad in one of many retreats the place she launched herself as a medical clown. I used to be intrigued, got here again and looked for what’s it. I discovered the entire idea fascinating and wished to expertise the enjoyment of sharing smiles with those who want it essentially the most. Nobody was doing this in Delhi and I actually wished to. That is how Clownselors Basis (a not-for-profit organisation) was born,” Agarwal informed PTI.</p> <p>We have been fortunate to start out our work with Delhi’s Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya as it’s a hospital for youngsters.</p> <p>“Because the first clowning, we’ve got had experiences the place mother and father shed tears of happiness seeing their baby smile or eat after many days. The response has been overwhelming,” stated Agarwal.</p> <p>Clownselors go to hospitals, old-age houses, faculties and company workplaces for stress administration.</p> <p>“After we make youngsters giggle with our humorous acts, it helps in rising their immunity as nicely,” stated Abhishek Bansal, who works with a personal agency in Noida and engages in medical clowning on the hospital on Saturdays.</p> <p>Echoing related views, Komal Touranni, a Delhi College scholar and a mediclowner, stated medical clowning additionally acts as a distraction remedy for sufferers.</p> <p>Medical clowning bridges the hole between offering take care of bodily well being and psychological well being in hospital settings, based on the clownselors.</p> <p>Not only for the youngsters being handled within the hospital, however for his or her guardians and nursing employees, medical clowning comes as an enormous reduction because it helps in decreasing stress and anxiousness, Sarthak Gandhi, one other mediclowner, famous.</p> <p>“It feels good to look at them (clownselors) carry out,” stated Anita, a affected person’s mom. It helps lighten the temper as individuals are usually in stress in hospital, she added.</p> <p>“These volunteers come to this hospital each Saturday and make folks giggle by their act,” Gurjeet, a nurse on the hospital, stated.</p> <p>One other medical clowner Simran Juneja expressed happiness in being a part of this initiative.</p> <p>“I’ve been a clownselor for the previous over three years. I discover that this remedy appears to be engaged on the sufferers,” Juneja stated.</p> <p>