Christmas comes early at North East Point Hospital |21 December 2013

Minister Larue and her team distributing hampers to the residents

With another year coming to an end many are reflecting on the good and bad that have happened to them and others.

Many people are preparing themselves to celebrate, but not all are feeling good this festive season. There are those who have lost a dear one or those who are hospitalised for one reason or another.

With the feeling of Christmas and New Year in the air, health minister Mitcy Larue and her central management team visited the North East Point Hospital yesterday.

She took the opportunity to interact with the health care providers and thanked them for their hard work and devotion and their contribution to health care delivery.

“Each member of my staff forms part of our big family. We need to work together to be able to move forward,” Minister Larue said when she addressed the staff.

She added that all staff need to be compassionate and should feel the need to serve with a smile on their faces so that they can put their patients at ease.

When she welcomed the minister and her delegation, North East Point Hospital ward manager Isabelle Joubert thanked them for their usual support and cooperation which she said has helped ease their tasks at the hospital.

And honouring the annual tradition, the minister and her delegation visited the wards and surprised the patients with a hamper each as a gift and offered them her good wishes on the occasion of the festive season.

The patients were overjoyed by the minister’s visit and there were those who seized the opportunity to tell her about their social problems and how they appreciate the staff’s help.

The staff also surprised Minister Larue and her delegation with a Christmas carols presentation.

The minister is expected to visit the Seychelles Hospital in the coming week.