France Culture and Public Assistance - Paris Hospitals (AP-HP) have launched a radio intended to support patients suffering from the Covid-19 coronavirus, Radio France announced on Wednesday.
Called Culture et Compagnie, the radio offers "to sick people a precious accompaniment in this ordeal, with a variety of soothing and entertaining content, chosen with the AP-HP teams and composed of readings, discovery programs or even relaxation and meditation programs, ”said the press release.
We can hear the historian Michel Pastoureau talking about the figure of the rooster, the psychiatrist Christophe André of nostalgia, or a documentary on Coluche, which incites to "laugh at everything".
"We needed to invent new forms of links"
This radio imagined in partnership with the AP-HP is available since Monday on the France Culture website and can be offered to patients via their smartphones, or tablets made available thanks to donations.
The idea came from Michèle Levy-Soussan, head of the mobile support and palliative care unit at the Pitié-Salpêtrière-AP-HP hospital.
"For hospitalized patients, the issue of isolation quickly emerged as an essential dimension of this health crisis," she said in a press release. The caregivers, also deprived of the families' presence with the patients, then become word couriers, and we had to invent new forms of links. ”
The program loop, which lasts about thirty hours, will be renewed each week, for an as yet indefinite period.
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