What is a Hygienic Play Center?
They are centers established to provide free service to preschool children undergoing cancer treatment, in order to provide the necessary play and socialization support with their peers, by observing the necessary hygiene conditions; they have a hygienic play area, family waiting area, psychologist interview room, office, kitchen, children’s and adult toilets.
In Hygienic Play Centers, games, educational activities and workshops suitable for the age groups of their young visitors are held. In addition to these, additional trainings such as ballet, yoga, drama, foreign language are regularly given to children by volunteer experts.
Special days such as report card days, April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day, Mother’s Day are celebrated with children and families in play centers.
Why is it needed?
While healthy children can overcome simple illnesses such as cold and flu, children who are receiving treatment experience severe illnesses because their immune systems are weak. Therefore, it is dangerous for their health to come together.
Schools and play groups that healthy children attend are at a standard hygiene level, it is sufficient to do standard daily cleaning and wash fruits and vegetables in a standard manner. As long as children do not have allergies, they can eat any food given in schools and play with toys after a standard daily cleaning unless there is an extra situation.
The food and drink routines of children receiving cancer treatment are subject to rules. There are many foods that they are prohibited from eating and drinking. It is extremely important for their health that the air in the area they are in is clean and that there are no germs in the environment. Toilets should be cleaned with disinfectants before and after each use, and their toys should be wiped with disinfectants every day. They should wash their hands every time they come from outside, usually wear a mask, and everyone who comes into contact with them should follow these cleaning and hygiene rules.
A large and detailed disinfection process is applied to our Hygienic Play Centers every year. After this process, our centers’ playgrounds and children’s toilets are free of germs for 1 year. As a result of the hygiene inspections carried out regularly every 4 months by an impartial laboratory with ISO Clean Room Measurement authority, our Hygienic Play Centers are in the ISO 7 class. This result is the intensive care unit hygiene level.
It is important to recognize the possible psychological risk symptoms that may be experienced by the patient’s relatives and during the treatment of the patient in advance and to take precautions for the successful completion of cancer treatment. We provide free psychologist support to improve the patient’s quality of life and to help patients with strategies to cope with the disease. When children come to hygienic play centers, we mediate them to have parent-psychologist meetings. Especially during the pandemic period, our psychologists continue to conduct parent-child meetings face-to-face or remotely.
Procedures for Hygienic Play Centers
– Hygienic Play Centers are open 5 (five) days a week, between 08:00-17:30.
– There is a full-time preschool teacher at each Play Center.
– The maximum capacity of the Play Centers per unit time is 10 children.
– Psychological support services are provided free of charge for families at the Play Centers.
– Home shuttle services are provided free of charge for families at the Play Centers.
– Preschool children who are undergoing chemotherapy are always dropped off at the Hygienic Play Centers by a family member.
– Families fill out a detailed information form on their first visit and drop off their children at the centers with a signature on each subsequent visit.
– While the children are in the playground, families can wait in the waiting area or they can drop off their children at the playground and pick them up at the time they specify.
– Children’s temperatures are measured at the entrance to the playground. Children with a fever above 37.5 degrees from the ear and signs of infection (fever, sneezing, runny nose, cough, etc.) are not accepted to Hygienic Play Centers. The temperature information measured is added to the entry form for each child at the entrance. Entry forms are signed by families.
– Play centers are closed on official and religious holidays.
– The most important rule of Hygienic Play Center is HYGIENE.
General Hygiene
▪ General cleaning is done in the Play Centers every evening between 18:00-20:00 or every morning between 07:00-08:30. In this context;
– Floors are swept and mopped.
– All surfaces and toys are wiped with surface disinfectant (Descosept AF).
– All toilets (children and adults) are cleaned with surface disinfectant.
– Dust is removed.
– Garbage is collected.
– Windows are cleaned.
– Altunizade Measurement Report
– Play Center Brochure
▪ At the entrance to the Play Centers, shoe covers are worn, hands are cleaned with hand disinfectant, and masks are used.
▪ Unless there is an emergency, people other than children, teachers and assistant teachers are not allowed to enter the play areas. The play area is used with the doors opening to other areas closed, windows or air conditioning on.
▪ Shoes are removed at the entrance to the playground and slippers/booties that have been cleaned with disinfectant are worn.
▪ It is preferred that children bring their own slippers/booties when they come to the playground, and if they do not bring their own, booties provided by the playground are used.
▪ Air is cleaned in the playground with an air sterilization device between 08:30-17:30.
Toilet Hygiene
▪ In the Hygienic Play Center, children use only the toilets reserved for them.
▪ Teachers, assistant teachers or parents accompany children to the toilet.
▪ Before and after using the toilet, the toilet seat is wiped with disinfectant.
▪ No one other than children can use the children’s toilet.
▪ Hands are washed with antibacterial soap and dried with a single-use paper towel.
Food Hygiene
▪ Children are always given water in a closed bottle and only once.
▪ Families are not prohibited from bringing food or baby food with them to the play center. Families can feed their children in the kitchen area.
▪ In the Hygienic Play Center, children are not given any other food or drink except for unsalted grissini, crackers, etc. snacks, bananas and milk.
▪ Hot and cold drinks and snacks are available for families.
Adres Bilgisi
Altunizade Mahallesi, Okul Sokak, Altunizade Sitesi A Blok, No:1 Da:1
Üsküdar/İstanbul
Telefon
0552 683 97 15
E-Posta
info@gulmekiyilestirir.org.tr
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