Palhaços d'Opital | About Us :)

Palhaços d’Opital was founded on February 12, 2013 and was a pioneer in Europe to take the work and mission of Doctors Clown to Adults focusing on the Elderly, in a hospital environment. We make weekly visits to 5 Partner Hospitals: Matosinhos Local Health Unit, Coimbra IPO, Tondela Viseu Hospital Center, Figueira da Foz District Hospital and Baixo Vouga Hospital Center (Aveiro). Our team of Clown Doctors is composed of professional artists (Actors, clown’s, musicians, etc.), with stage experience and with specific training in clowning in the hospital environment. We do more than 250 hours of internal and external training. You can follow our work on our Social Media.

`` They are people who make us feel good! They manage to make a smile on our face, when the eyes want to cry! ``

Dr. Rui Miguel Cruz

Admin at Hospital Distrital da Figueira da Foz

One-Off Donation

To support us through a one-time donation, you can make a transfer using the MBWay number:

938 780 202

Do not forget to add your name, address and tax number in the description.

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Hug an O’Opital

 

With the help of your company we can continue our misson in more hospitals. Sponsor a partner hospital for a month and see the name of your company associated with this cause. With this hug, the partner company is associated with all visits to that hospital during 30 days.

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Hug a Clown

 

Sponsor a Clown d’Opital and help make those who need it the most smile . With the presence of your brand in all materials of Doctor Clown, the company finances the monthly visits of a Doctor Clown in all partner hospitals for 30 days.

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 D’Opital Partner

 

A smile the size of your company.
Embrace this cause with a one time donation and help Palhaços d’Opital to make those who need it the most smile.

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 D’Opital Friend

 

To support our cause you can become a partner at Palhaços d’Opital by paying an annual fee of 60 €.
This way you will be helping us to make the lives of hospital patients at a national level, happier.

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Our Missions

In Numbers

5

Hospitals

584

Visits

2848

Hours

574000

People Reached

Our Partner Hospitals

It is in hospitals that we act before the most challenging audience in the world. And how do we make those with no reason to smile, smile? Easy, we talk, sing, dance and share affections, stories and smiles.

Unidade Local de Saúde de Matosinhos

Since 1999, the Matosinhos Local Health Unit (ULSM) stands out for its excellence in the provision of integrated health care, assuming itself as a reference for other health care providers. Pioneer and precursor, the oldest Local Health Unit in the country focuses on health promotion, in a global, integrated and personalized way, not only in health care at various levels, but also with the autarchy, schools and society bodies .

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Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra

The Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Coimbra Francisco Gentil, E.P.E. (IPOCFG, EPE) is a hospital unit that integrates the health care network of the National Health Service and the type A platform of the oncology hospital referral network, which gives it top responsibilities in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological disease throughout the Central Region of Portugal, with an estimated population of two million inhabitants.

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Centro Hospitalar de Tondela – Viseu

The first Hospital in Viseu was the Hospital das Chagas, belonging to Misericórdia, the current building of the Public Security Police, established between 1565/1585 (?) By Gerónimo Braga and his wife Isabel de Almeida, near the church of S. Martinho (extinct) ), to treat patients who did not exceed three months of dressing. The support of the sick was left to the Santa Casa, as well as their admission.

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Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga

In 1899 the land was acquired by “three euros” and on October 15, 1901 the first stone was laid for the construction of the new hospital. The works were concluded at the end of 1915, although in 1914 the first patients were received.

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Hospital Distrital da Figueira da Foz, E.P.E.

The history of the Hospital da Figueira da Foz goes back to 1839, where the first treatment unit emerged as part of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia founded on December 5th.

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