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The Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and the Minister of Health, María Ángeles Palacios, distributed this morning, some 1,500 books among patients in the Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía de Murcia, three on each patient within the program 'Reading Informal 'of the Ministry of Culture of the Region of Murcia, which aims to provide maximum access to reading for all citizens, and also through the works of writers from Murcia.
The books scattered, 'Hegel on the Tram', Ruben Castillo, 'The Red Scarf' by Manuel Moyano, and 'Tales Delicious' by Juan Ramón Barat, are authors Murcia.
The Minister of Health, María Ángeles Palacios, described this activity as particularly attractive to patients in a hospital, and said, "During the time a patient must be admitted there is nothing better than a book to escape what around you when you're sick or convalescent. "
According to Palacios, "a book is always an open door to the imagination, a door for someone who is several days locked in a room with the best way to travel to different stories."
The adviser said that the books are by authors from Murcia, "because our literature is to promote promote our culture, and that's good anywhere, also a hospital."
The Reina Sofia Hospital has received nearly 1,500 copies of three books of the 'Informal Reading', the first hospital that participates in this campaign.
"Today is the Reina Sofia, but we hope to continue delivering books in other hospitals in our region.
In all there are libraries, many books are received, and there is always the possibility of providing a book that asks the patient, "said Palacios, who said that" in the process of healing and treatment of patients not only have to have account of the drugs, because reading in many cases, it may be beneficial for patients and their treatments. "
For his part, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, said that this action is the beginning of an ongoing collaboration with the Ministry of Health to bring reading to hospitals.
Cruz explained that the project 'Informal Reading', which carries out the Department through the General Directorate of Books, Archives and Libraries, have already distributed more than 60,000 books in Murcia, Cartagena, Molina de Segura, Totana, Ojós and Eagles.
The Minister of Culture was pleased with the success of the initiative and the great acceptance by the public Murcia.
'Informal Reading'
The 'informal reading' is composed of three collections: 'The Library of Tram' reading associated with public transportation; 'Microfronteras' casual texts published in small format, and 'Poetry in the file' brings together the poems of authors involved in the cycle of the same name held at the Coffee Regional Archives.
These collections offer, as noted by the counselor, "the possibility of breaking into the reading, young writers discover the Region of Murcia and retain new readers through free distribution."
Source: CARM
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