Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Strengthening pediatric cancer care in the Republic of Slovakia
Last week, a team from the Princess Máxima Center visited our partners in Slovakia and joined them during a Celebration of Life event with children with cancer and their families. Together with Children’s Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Slovak Medical University, a NÚDCH and the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, which treat 75% of the 200 children in Slovakia that are diagnosed with cancer every year, we celebrated and reconfirmed our partnership. Our shared mission is to strengthen regional collaboration so that children with cancer can receive high-quality care in their own country.
In the coming years we will jointly focus on further developing NÚDCH’s in-house diagnostic capacity to enable faster diagnosis and better care. Additionally, we will help establish a precision medicine program to provide patients with access to high-quality personalized medicine, something they currently don’t have.
We also met with president Peter Pellegrini, health minister Kamil Sasko and Dutch ambassador Jules Gerzon regarding the construction of a new children’s hospital, and we are honored to support this in an advisory capacity.
We want to thank our partners and the president for the warm welcome and the opportunity to meet the children and their families in person. Step by step, our collaboration will strengthen sustainable pediatric oncology capacity in the region, for the region.”
Carmen Uscatu, Founding Member and President of Give Life, shared this post on LinkedIn, adding:
“I love my job.
Because it gives me the chance to meet people—people like us, who fight against the odds. People locked in a constant competition with themselves to grow, not for glory, but to leave their mark on the world they live and work in.
In Bratislava, I met Alexandra Kolenova and her team. I met a foundation—much like our own Give Life —striving to improve lives for children with cancer. I had the honor of presenting our hospital to medical teams, parents, the President of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini and the Netherlands’ Ambassador to Slovakia, Jules Gerzon. Together, we identified ways to collaborate further.
And we’re already doing it: our nurses and theirs now take English lessons together, thanks to the bridge built by Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology. This partnership exists because we share a single goal—to transform care for children with cancer.
That’s why I love my job. It’s always about people. Good people.”
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