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Swiss doctors are expanding the range of prescription for patients with mental health conditions and chronic diseases, including a walk in public parks, art galleries and museums.
The city of NewChetal in Western Switzerland launched a pilot project with doctors last month to help struggling residents and promote physical activity.
“Those who sometimes face difficulties with their mental health, this allows them to spend their concerns, their pain, their diseases and spend a joyful moment of discovery,” said a NewChatal doctor who participated in the program, Petricia Lehman.
“I believe that when we take care of people’s feelings, we somehow allow them to find a way for treatment in some way.”
Four hundred tips will be handed over for free visits at four sites including three museums and the city botanical garden.
One of them went to a 26-year-old woman suffering from burnouts, met in Reuters Natatal Museum of Art and History, with Cloud Monet and Edgar Degas as well as a collection of automated dolls.
“I think it brings a little light to the darkness,” he said, asked to stay anonymous.
Officials say the idea comes from the study of the 2019 World Health Organization, which discovers the role of art in promoting health and dealing with the disease.
During the Kovid -19 lockdown, the closed people of the museum killed People’s Welling, said Julie Courtsier Delafontan, head of the city’s culture department.
“It was a real trigger and we were really convinced that culture was necessary for the good of humanity,” he said.
The initiative will be tested for one year and can be expanded to other activities such as theater.
“We would like to unload the project and are enough patients to prove its value and one day, why not, covers health insurance culture as a medical treatment,” said courtsier delafontan.
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