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Cătălin Cîrstoveanu, “Angel of children”: Every day we live the nightmare of children who have no place …
Dr Cătălin Cîrstoveanu succeeded in making the department he runs, through fundraising campaigns carried out over the last few years, the most modern Intensive Care Unit for newborns in Southeast Europe.
Currently, the NGO Inima Copiilor and the doctor Cătălin Cîrstoveanu, also known as “The angel of children”, are carrying out a fundraising campaign to expand the Intensive Care Unit for newborns, after they managed to turn it into the most modern. section of this type in southeastern Europe. All on your own, without the involvement of the authorities.
The reason: the room has only 27 seats, and there are another 20-30 children on the waiting list from all over the country every day, who do not sit in an ATI room.
“Every day we live the nightmare of children who do not occur… We always have between 10 and 30 children on the waiting list. We can fill a section with just them … Since we started monitoring the occupation of the section, we have brought to light dramatic figures: dozens of newborns who did not die because I treated them badly, but because I did not treat them at all “, says Cătălin Cîrstoveanu, head of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Marie Curie Hospital.
“Romania needs 100 intensive care beds to stop this nightmare. 20 of them will be created by us, with the help of each one of you, in Marie Curie. We are building a hospital corps with 20 beds, especially dedicated neonatal surgery: cardiac surgery , general surgery, neurosurgery, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, orthopedics “, explains the doctor Cătălin Cîrstoveanu.
The NGO that raises money to expand the Marie Curie Intensive Care Unit
“At the national level, we have very few high-performance intensive care units for newborns. The one in Bucharest, which we built and completed in 2013, is operating at its maximum capacity and generally above maximum capacity: it has 27 places And often there are 29, 30 or 32 children hospitalized, beyond their capacity, because you can’t let them die, as long as you can treat them, even if you crowd them, if I may say so. ” , explains, for HotNews.ro, Alexandru Popa, founder and president of the Children’s Heart Association.
Alexandru Popa, President of the Children’s Heart Association
The waiting list to receive an intensive care bed from Marie Curie is long, says Alexandru Popa: “Obviously, there is a long enough waiting list for these children, who are born with serious medical problems, to be admitted to the Marie Curie Newborn Intensive Care Unit, which is by far the best in the country.” that there would be some more sections of this type, so that there is not so much demand from Bucharest, because there are certain pathologies that, in our country, can only be treated here, in Bucharest “.
This is the reason why Dr. Cătălin Cîrstoveanu and Inima Copiilor want to expand the department with another 20 places: “There are 27 places, some would say there are many, but they are not enough, it is a large section, but we want to expand it.”
The waiting list of children in need of an Intensive Care Bed is displayed on the e-neonat.ro website, which presents the exact status of the number of requests for hospitalization daily.
On Thursday, at the time of publication of this article, 27 children were hospitalized in the ATI section of Marie Curie, joined by another 7, additionally hospitalized (over-allocation), and 19 were waiting for a place.
“A place is only vacated when a child returns home cured or, God forbid, dies. And he does not return home so fast, the time he spends in the room is quite long. He stays 2-3 years, for example a patient with short bowel syndrome. I had a patient who went 4 years without two months “, says Alexandru Popa.
Exists short SMS number, 8844, to which, if you send the text is ok, you subscribe to the donation and help with this project, according to Alexandru Popa. “It is not easy, we need many more places. In general, at the national level, there are no places,” concludes the president of Inima Copiilor.
The most modern Intensive Care Unit for newborns in Southeast Europe
Since 2013, when the ATI ward was modernized, 300 newborns with serious illnesses, from all over the country, are cared for annually at the Marie Curie Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
The conditions are exemplary: sterile individual rooms, first-class equipment, tranquility and security.
However, the 27 places in the department are not enough. Dr Cătălin Cîrstoveanu and the Inima Copiilor Association wish that, following the fundraising currently under way, they could build a new hospital body to expand the current department.
The 20 extra places will mean another 20 children who will benefit from the best treatment conditions.
The Inima Copiilor Association and the doctor Cătălin Cîrstoveanu estimate that the amount necessary for Marie Curie to care for 500 newborns with serious problems annually, with the expansion of the department, is 5 million euros. “Help us make this possible!” Is the message from the fundraising initiators.
