Carmen Uscatu, Founding Member, President at Give Life NGO, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“In an interview at RFI Romania I explained how children with cancer are treated in the hospital built by Dăruiește Viață.
Marie Curie Children’s Hospital is offering, for the first time in Romania, a comprehensive approach to treating pediatric cancer. It is the only place in the country where all the necessary specialties are brought together. A child diagnosed with a serious illness receives all treatments in one location.
They are no longer moved from one hospital to another, as used to happen before and, unfortunately, still happens in other centers in the country.
The hospital has the first Pediatric Radiotherapy Department in a public hospital.
It is estimated that one third of children diagnosed with cancer need radiotherapy, which previously was provided in adult centers, meaning the patient had to be shuttled between hospitals.
Advantages:
– Access to the newest technologies (one of the radiotherapy machines is unique and uses artificial intelligence to calculate the patient’s position).
– Possibility of anesthesia for younger children.
– A multidisciplinary team for oncologic treatment (in practice, a diagnosed child can receive the treatment triad in the new hospital: chemo, surgery, and radiotherapy).
– International expertise: through a partnership with the Prinses Máxima Centrum voor kinderoncologie, the largest pediatric oncology clinic in Europe, each patient’s plan is seen by a radiation oncologist expert from Prinses Máxima Centrum voor kinderoncologie.
– A pleasant environment designed to reduce anxiety (the bunkers are themed as an ocean world with hidden treasures).”
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