The first face you see
Taiwan boasts, if that’s the word, the first Hello Kitty-themed maternity hospital:
The 30-bed Hau Sheng Hospital in Yuanlin in central Taiwan is reportedly the world’s first Hello Kitty themed medical establishment.
From blankets and birth certificates to cots and uniforms worn by staff, every aspect of the Hello Kitty hospital is emblazoned with the feline motif. Patients are welcomed by a statue of Hello Kitty dressed in a doctor’s uniform, before travelling in a Hello Kitty elevator to a pink examination room with Hello Kitty posters on the wall.
Hospital director Tsai Tsung-chi:
“I wish that everyone who comes here, mothers who suffer while giving birth and children who suffer from an illness, can get medical care while seeing these kitties and bring a smile to their faces, helping forget about discomfort and recover faster.”
I hope the newborns aren’t scarred for life.
(Via Fark.)
fillyjonk »
10 December 2008 · 10:36 am
It’s a good thing humans aren’t like baby ducks, which “imprint” on the first reasonably mother-like object they see and insist on following it around thereafter. (Konrad Lorenz, famously, got some geese to imprint on a pair of boots he owned).