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Brasov Children’s Hospital is a 350 bed, fairly modern, hospital, with attached Polyclinic, serving patients aged between 1 day and 18 years, from anywhere in the Brasov County.
Finding the money for special milk formulae for sick babies is one of the hospital’s biggest problems. We send what funds we can, but could always use more help. These products are now available locally in Romania.
The hospital’s success in starting a physiotherapy room has been a great encouragement, specially as it coincided with the development of a plastic surgery department for burns victims. New cots have also been purchased as local fundraising in Brasov has grown.
Rather than attempting to respond to sudden emergency requests from the hospital pharmacy the Trust has committed to shipping a quarterly preplanned list of antibiotics, asthma treatments and other medicines.
Occasionally we are asked by the hospital if we can help to provide vital pieces of equipment. Let us tell you about two such occasions.
In 1999 the Trust was asked, as a matter of great urgency, to provide industrial washing machines. The hospital explained that they had been using very old machines which were totally ineffective. Failure to meet the hygiene regulations would have meant hospital closure. Thanks to a generous legacy we were able to supply and fit two excellent machines which are still in constant use today (see photographs).
More recently we were asked if we could help to provide a good working incubator. It became evident that this Children’s Hospital had only two working incubators. Due to the generosity of a major supplier we were able to provide a dozen brand new incubators. (see photographs)
The Play Therapy department, run by Dana Tanasescu, is always inspiring to visit. So worthwhile, so little money!
On a recent visit we witnessed a graphic demonstration
of the effectiveness of play therapy. A young child with leukaemia needed to have a large cannula inserted. As we were arriving on the ward the child was clearly in great distress and panic—there was no possibility of the nurses being able to insert the cannula with the young boy in this state, so they called for Dana. Within a very short space of time the child was calm, the cannula inserted and the treatment continuing.
