León, Gto., May 8, 2017.- Students of the major in Medicine of Campus Leon of the University of Guanajuato (UG), had –as every year—one more edition of the "Teddy bear hospital", an initiative for children so they may lose the fear for the doctor.

The Explora Park in León, was the places where they simulated hospital installation with patients, different stuffed animals which were examined by children, who were doctors for a day.

Óscar Ariel Arrieta Muñoz, med student, commented that the event is done in the Children's Day celebrations, "one of our main objects is for them to lose fear of the white robe, that is why we introduce them to a simulated hospital in which they reflect in the teddy bear (the patient), while they take him through several spaces in the hospital."

This edition had the participation of approximately 45 students from different semesters of Med Schools, Óscar Arrieta described the process where the little ones were involved, "first we give them an id like a stethoscope with their name, then they take the teddy bear to consult and take the vital signs; then, they x-ray him, then take him to surgery, space where there a simulated surgery team and a patient."

The student continued saying that the children are given the proper clothes of a medic to enter the OR. Afterwards, they go to a space where someone explains them the human rights and the reproductive health, where they make a framed analogy with the phrase "my body is my treasure". To finalize, they go to the pharmacy where they receive candy.

Arrieta mentioned that it is indispensable that children lose the fear for the doctors and hospitals, because encouraging health will be part of his lives and the care of their body is fundamental.

The Teddy Bear Hospital project, is an initiative of UG's Campus León, who has made the project every year through the Student Committee of External Medical Relations of UG and the Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Estudiantes de Medicina en México, both nationally and internationally. In addition to UG's med student, Odontology students from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Pharmacology of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional also participated.