By William Cole For Mailonline
Published: 09:17 BST, 16 May 2019 | Updated: 09:17 BST, 16 May 2019
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Old Spanish football shirts are being given a new lease of life on hospital wards.
Rather than let the unwanted La Liga kit go to waste, one company is upcycling the shirts into hospital gowns to help younger patients recover faster.
Children at the Hospital San Rafael in Madrid have been seen wearing Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid jerseys emblazoned with some of the nation's most famous players.
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A young patient wears a Barcelona 'Messi 10' shirt as he walks with a nurse down a ward in the Hospital San Rafael in Madrid
A tailor cuts open the back of a Sergio Ramos shirt before attaching colour coordinated ribbons to convert it into a hospital gown
The campaign, Las Batas Mas Fuertas - 'The Strongest Hospital Gowns' in English - was created by Spanish football magazine Panenka, who teamed up with We Are Xuxa to launch the gowns.
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