DNEVNIK: The first oncology hospital for children in Romania is also open for patients from Bulgaria

DNEVNIK (Bulgaria), May 9, 2024 – There is a possibility that small patients from Bulgaria will be treated in the first oncology hospital for children in Romania. This was stated in an interview for BTA by the two ladies who founded it – Carmen Uscatu and Oana Gheorghiu from the “Give Life” Association. The medical facility was built with the help of 8,000 companies and 350,000 individual donors, including heavy metal group Metallica. It became operational in mid-April and has already received its first patients.

“I made a hospital in Romania out of desperation that nothing is happening. But in reality and by law, we are citizens who should be more demanding of those who are paid to run the country. So my first appeal to the people of Bulgaria who have given up hope that they will ever have a children’s hospital, is “go to the polls, think carefully about who you will choose, and after choosing them, ask them to do his job”, said Oana Gheorghiu in an interview for BTA. She believes that the people of Bulgaria must ask the state to build hospitals.

“In the Republic of Moldova we have identified, and I am talking about the Republic of Moldova, but things may be similar for Bulgaria, an opportunity to treat the children there in Romania, because they lack certain medical services. And it is not enough that they are developed, because when you have 10 children who need a marrow transplant, you cannot hire four doctors, ten nurses and make a transplant infrastructure, which means sterile rooms, some special conditions, but you can send them to Romania for treatment. I think the same thing could develop with Bulgaria, so that the children of this region have a chance”, comments Carmen Uscatu. According to her, it is the duty of countries with larger populations and greater funding to help children in neighboring countries.

Article by Martina Ganceva, BTA correspondent in Bucharest

https://www.dnevnik.bg/bulgaria/2024/05/08/4623346_purvata_detska_onkobolnica_v_rumuniia_e_otvorna_za/

Translation: Mirela Petrescu/ RADOR RADIO ROMANIA/pmirela/cciulu