Pets allowed in the ward during visiting hours for inpatients: the historical innovation, announced today by the newspaper Il Secolo XIX ", will start from next month, San Martino Hospital in Genoa, the more of Liguria, but will be subject to certain restrictions. It will be necessary to ask at least 24 hours in advance for permission, which shall be signed by doctors at the department, must obtain the consent of the other patients hospitalized in the same room, and the animals must have a health card attesting to his good health will allow dogs , cats and rabbits but not even canaries, parakeets and other birds, potential speakers of diseases.
The health department would have taken the decision - the newspaper of Genoa - after an incident last October, when an usher tried, unsuccessfully, to block a visitor who wanted to take the terminal to a sick, hospitalized nell'hospice of Hall Maragliano, her dog for a last goodbye. The medical director has studied the issue and it has drawn up a draft regulation, in which it is recalled that pet therapy is now widely recognized even on scientific grounds.
SOURCE: The zampa.it 26.11.2009 
