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09 August, 2007
Israeli health experts are offering training to 33 Ethiopians on medical clowning to enable them to provide assistance to patients through entertainment, the Ethiopian News Agency reported Wednesday.
Medical clowns are volunteers who visit hospital wards and are trained to help patients laugh in order to help them heal, the report explained.
The trainees are attending various courses on ways to help children and adult patients through entertaining them on the premises of the Ethiopian Red Cross Training Center, it said.
Some 15 of the trainers, who are drawn from Circus Ethiopia affiliate offices, are expected to receive further training in Israel for one and a half months, it added.
Medical clowning is a method of providing medical treatment to children and adults through laughter, which is practiced in Israel and in various European countries.
It was introduced in Ethiopia last year. At present, there are close to 1,000 medical clowns operating in the capital Addis Ababa and the northern Debre Markos town.
Source: Xinhua