Nowadays, ICT technology has become much easier to access. It can connect from everywhere. But the patients in hospital cannot access to the ICT technology because of the limitation of their illness.  Patients have to stay in an unfamiliar environment, their families are sometimes faced with financial distress, and the hospital facility does not support patients to use ICT technology, making it stressful for all parties. Moreover, learning and development is pivotal to child patients. That is why we see the importance of bringing in ICT to improve the quality of child patients, during their admission at a hospital.

Because some children have to stay in hospital for a long period of time, they will be also able to catch up with their friends on class lessons. This project aims to decrease the gap between a child patients’ learning and to foster relationships with family, friends, and the society.

Happy Hospital’s goal is to design and implement activities to “Increase Happiness, Decrease Sadness” for all patients, their family and also hospital staff. Happy Hospital tries to decrease a strained environment in the hospital by using technology, ICT and volunteer as a tool to achieve their goals.

“My body might be ill, but my heart is not” A little kid shows 2 fingers to the camera, symbolizing how he will fight to recover his illness. After a volunteer brings them a laptop with a question of “how many kind of animals are in this world?”, the kids try to categorize a type of animal by the “Mind map Program”

A hospital area and family area does not necessarily need to be separate. Family members can play with their child in a recreation room.
 

“Child patients talk to each other about how they would like to know how to do the report cover, so that they can follow they be updated about their friends and be diverted from the hospital environment. They’re trying to figure out where the IT room is in the hospital. Even though they’re ill, they can still study like the other kids.”