Therapy pony visits hospital to cheer up patients in their sick beds | Lifestyle

A hospital in Kent welcomed a go to from a miniature pony this week, as a part of an ongoing drive to make use of animal remedy to spice up affected person restoration and expertise.

Remedy pony George, a four-year-old Miniature Shetland, trotted into Medway NHS Basis Belief’s Sheppey Frailty Unit – a lot to the delight of sufferers and employees.

‘’For many sufferers, it’s one thing new and completely different – remedy animals like George may help to enhance folks’s well-being and psychological well being,” proprietor Michelle Burney mentioned.

“It was pretty to see the sheer pleasure on their faces after we walked in.”

George represents the Faversham-based organisation George And Buddies Animal Therapies, run by Ms Burney, a former NHS employee.