The library aims to contribute to patients’ recovery and the well-being of their companions by offering them leisure options.

The library for patients at Son Espases University Hospital has reopened four years after it was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to the participation of volunteers from La Caixa, which will manage it from now on, this service aims to contribute to patient’s recovery and the well-being of their companions by offering them leisure options.

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Son Espases Hospital reopens the library for patients managed by La Caixa volunteers

Gabriel Rojo, Deputy Director of Humanisation, User Care and Training of the Health Service of the Government of the Balearic Islands; María Cruz Rivera, Regional Director of CaixaBank in the Balearic Islands; and Cristina Granados, Managing Director of Son Espases University Hospital, attended the inauguration ceremony.

The event was also attended by representatives of the collaborating entities, such as the Fundació Deixalles and the Can Sales Library; the newspapers Diario de Mallorca and Última Hora, which provide copies free of charge to the library, and the Manacor poet Josep Lluís Aguiló, who recited some of his most famous compositions and stressed the importance of words, poetry and beauty. He also donated some of his works to the library and dedicated them especially to them.

Volunteers will be organised in shifts with long opening hours, from Monday to Friday, to ensure that all users have access to books, newspapers and magazines, as well as the large online catalogue of eBiblio, in collaboration with the Can Sales Library. Patients will be able to borrow books from their rooms, and a reading service will also be offered in the room for patients in unwanted solitary confinement if the Hospital considers it advisable from a therapeutic point of view.