The Renovation of the Marie Curie Children´s Hospital
In June 2007 Scheherazade Foundation began raising funds to renovate the Marie Curie Children´s Hospital in Bucharest which is the largest children´s Hospital in the country with 500 beds, 10,000 sq meters of covered area and takes care of 50,000 children a year from all over Romania. This project has been the primary focus of the Foundation´s work and the Foundation has raised almost Euros 1.5 million towards this goal to date. The funds raised are being used to renovate the rooms according to the EU standards. So far 75 rooms have been renovated with new antibacterial flooring, antibacterial paint on the walls, new windows, new heating system, air conditioning system, new plumbing and 60 new bathrooms which did not exist before. Work on the hospital continues to progress and by summer 2009 the Foundation expects to complete the renovation the hospital.
Equipments for the foundation: The foundation was donated money to buy two special kinds of surgical equipments. Last year Vodafone foundation made a donation of 40,000 Euros to purchase equipment for the endoscopic treatment of urological conditions, congenital malformations and stones of urological system. This equipment did not exist in any pediatric hospital until now. Each year many children will be benefit from this equipment. It is a minimal invasive procedure, which will reduce the pain and hospital stay. The most important aspect is that there will be no bleeding and no incision which will leave no scar and the children can start their normal activity and school in just two days after the surgery.
We also purchased a system called Triad, which was donated by Mrs. Camelia Sucu, it is a modern electrosurgical tool launched two years ago for open surgery, laparoscopic and minimal invasive approach. This equipment will also help in the treatment of solid tumors for the oncology section. It will further improve the conditions of hospital stay and medical care.This kind of equipment is installed for the first time in Romania in a children´s hospital, which will be used by the pediatric surgeons at the Marie Curie Children´s Hospital. Each year around 400 – 500 children will benefit from the technical progress of these equipments. We expect these numbers will increase, as more parents will find out about the possibilities of these surgical procedures in the Marie Curie children´s hospital.
Auto Italia donated us the first state of the art fully equipped Ambulance which will help to transport children to and from the hospital and a car for the medical personnel. The foundation would like to thank The Stien Family for their generosity and kindness!
Donors: Colgate, Petrom, Philips, Romstal, LG, Orange, Vodafone, Enel, Carrefour, Romtelecom, AutoItalia, Mega Image, METRO, Copper Beech, Fortune Group, Porsche Romania, Apa nova, Avicola si Buzau and Rompetrol.
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