{
  "id": 12850028,
  "title": "Portuguese hospital lets pets visit owners on wards: a new model?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/portuguese-hospital-lets-pets-visit-owners-on-wards-a-new-model",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-08T10:53:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euronews",
    "slug": "euronews",
    "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/08/portuguese-hospital-lets-pets-visit-owners-on-wards-a-new-model"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In northern and central Europe, pets stay outside hospitals. São João's flexible model unites clinical benefits and safety, with no infections yet. \"There is too much fear,\" says the doctor who helped draft the project's rules.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}