Volunteering

EOC facilities can also rely on the valuable resources of volunteers, who give their services free of charge to offer help or keep company to patients who wish to do so.

Volunteer groups

The multisite hospital EOC is aware of the importance of the human and empathic aspect, which is why there are people in the institutions who volunteer and passionately offer their support to patients. The nursing staff is supported by the volunteer groups, who perform companionship and helping activities. This ensures a more peaceful stay for patients.

Volunteers wear a tunic and an identification badge that distinguishes them from the nursing staff and other service workers and qualifies them as volunteers licensed by the hospital to come into contact with patients.

Volunteers providing services to the EOC are coordinated by reference persons and act consistently with specific rules and modalities. These people are also subject to professional confidentiality and are required to respect and ensure the privacy of patients.

The Patient Support Group

There are also more specific volunteer groups, such as the Patient Support Group of the Senology Center of the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. The Patient Support Group is made up of women who have been through a breast cancer illness and who volunteer to get to know and assist newly diagnosed breast cancer patients.

Self Help

EOC has joined Auto Aiuto Ticino and promotes the creation and dissemination of self-help groups.
These groups, which arise at the initiative of people confronted with the same health problem and wishing to share their experiences, support each other and organize moments of sharing and fun, which strengthen bonds and mutual support.
The groups are not therapeutic groups and the presence of specialists at them is not necessary.
Groups that are formed within EOC, however, can count on the support of our specialists.

Do you have availability of free time? Do you wish to become a volunteer?

Make contact with the hospital of your choice. He will be summoned to an exploratory interview to learn about motivation and assess suitability: listening skills, sense of responsibility, balance, discretion, strong inclination to share social and institutional values. He may do a trial period, first alongside an already active volunteer and later accompanied by an experienced volunteer. After this introductory phase, he may join the group according to his time availability.

Reference contacts

Ospedale Regionale di Bellinzona

Referente: Eveline Cheda
Referente: Teresa Londino D'Antico

Ospedale Regionale di Locarno

Referente: Bruna Pedrazzi-Fioroni

Ospedale Regionale di Lugano

Referente: Don Cjarles Azanshi

Ospedale Regionale di Mendrisio

Referente: Gabriella Grounauer

The English version of this page was created with the aid of automatic translation tools and may contain errors and omissions.
The original version is the page in Italian.