For 30 years, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity has donated 8,152 devices to the Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Hospital at Polna Street in Poznań. This is medical equipment worth PLN 12 million. Today, the hospital cannot function without it.
Since December, the neonatology ward of the hospital at Polna Street has been officially named the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. – Every day I work with equipment from the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity and I can say that Jurek Owsiak’s foundation helps to set new trends in medicine – said Prof. Tomasz Szczapa, head of the 2nd Department of Neonatology at the hospital at ul. Polna.
His ward received several dozen devices with hearts that save the lives of the smallest patients. These are incubators, respirators, pain measuring equipment, ultrasound machines, various types of monitors.
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“WOŚP equipment helps us at every stage”
– There is a lot of equipment, we have been working on it for many years, it helps us at every stage. Premature babies lie in incubators that are really super equipped: they have humidification, scales, they can monitor the patient. We have surveillance. We have infusion pumps for administering drugs – mentions Bożena Górewicz, deputy ward nurse at the Neonatology Department No. II im. WOŚP.
In total, 8,152 devices from the thirty previous WOŚP finals were delivered to the hospital at Polna Street.
Doctors hope that this year’s collection will also be used to buy equipment for their facility that will help premature babies. – Premature babies, our patients, are children who, due to their immaturity, with not fully developed immune systems, are all the more susceptible to infections and severe sepsis. The key role is played by its detection as soon as possible in order to start treatment as soon as possible – says Prof. Tomasz Szczapa.
31. Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity
The 31st final of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity will take place on Sunday, January 29. The orchestra is playing this year “Live Healthy in a Healthy World”and the money raised will be used to fight sepsis. In 2022, PLN 224,376,706.35 was collected for the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.
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