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The Disney face masks that are making hospital less scary for sick children

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Staff working in the children’s Panda Unit at Salford Royal have come up with an innovative way to reassure young patients during the COVID pandemic.

Frontline clinical staff are required to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - such as face masks and visors - and the team on the hospital’s paediatric emergency assessment unit were concerned about making their young patients anxious because of the way they looked.

So, they have come up with a simple but effective way of turning the tears into smiles – by adapting their visors with popular film and cartoon characters.

Colourful cutouts of animals, Disney and Toy Story characters have been added to the tops of the protective face visors to distract and cheer up the young patients.

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