Carmen Uscatu: Who am I to write a book?
Carmen Uscatu, President and co-founder of Give Life, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I wrote “The Year I Did Not Die” with effort and all kinds of emotions. With discipline, waking up at 4 AM for 5 months and writing until 7. With the imposter syndrome that always made me wonder who am I to write a book? With the fear, after writing it, that I had written too much about myself and that I would feel very uncomfortable once I released it into the world.
But, seeing the messages from friends and many people I don’t know and probably will never know, at least not as much as they will know me after reading my book, I have calmed down. I know this book brings a lot of good.
Message from a friend who received a message from another friend.
Tell her she has a friend who, after a long time, regained the joy to change the world, thanks to the book she read between 2024 and 2025.
This after the last months of 2024 made her feel that at 33 she was too old and too tired to change the world.
Bravo to Uscata.”
Carmen Uscatu is the President and co-founder of Dăruiește Viață / Give Life, one of the most well-known NGOs in Romania and the NGO that has started and has implemented the initiative #WeBuildAHospital – building a children’s Hospital for scratch, exclusively from donations and sponsorships, a Hospital dedicated to ensuring multidisciplinary care to children with severe diseases, with a focus on cancer. She started volunteering in her free time before founding Dăruiește Viață, in 2012, with the purpose of drastically changing the way medical care is provided in Romania.
By the end of 2023, Dăruiește Viață had invested over 76M EUR in the public health system, implementing infrastructure projects, donating medical equipments, and supporting patients and medical staff. The Hospital built in Bucharest is currently functional, treating children in the following specialties: oncology, neurosurgery, surgery, ICU, and operating theatre with 5 operating rooms. In addition, the Hospital will include in the near future a transplant department and a radiotherapy department. Besides the Hospital, Dăruiește Viață has modernised and brought to nowadays standards oncology departments for children and adults in 8 hospitals across the country, has built 20 clean rooms thus tripling Romania’s transplant capacity, has built and equipped two laboratories for in-depth diagnosis of leukemia, has built two modular ICU hospitals during the pandemic and has donated over 17 tons of PPE. The Hospital project continues with the NGO planning to develop the project into the first pediatric medical campus in Romania.
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ASCO Annual Meeting
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OncoThon 2024, Online
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Global Summit on War & Cancer 2023, Online
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