"For the Good" Foundation donates to SBAL for children's diseases "Prof. Dr. Ivan Mitev" equipment to support the efforts of medical teams to take care of child patients.
Chronic difficulties for the hospital are intensified by the wave of Covid-19, which also affects children. This is the specific reason for the donation. It was organized a few hours after the meeting of the chairperson of the foundation, Kremena Kuneva, with the head of the children's Covid-19 department, Dr. Margarita Ganeva.
The Covid sector in the hospital has 5 beds, two of them are neonatal. All 5 beds are occupied. Two of the children are in intensive care and are fighting for their lives. In recent weeks, every day children have been waiting for hospitalization – one of the small patients has to be discharged so that another can attend. The Covid sector is "assembled with improvised means" - from the available equipment and human resources in the hospital. Both are woefully inadequate. In order to have some equipment for the children's covid department, it was taken from other departments where children have other severe diagnoses. It is the same with the doctors and nurses.
The Covid sector had an urgent need for equipment worth BGN 20,316. Providing it with a public procurement, as is known, is a long procedure, and child patients and doctors are racing against time.
So far we have provided:
- infusion syringe pump with additional SafeDose function, model BeneFusion eSP, Mindray, also applicable to premature children;
- 2 Infusion Syringe Pumps, Model BeneFusion eSP, Mindray, also applicable to premature babies;
- 1 patient monitor MEC 12, Mindary, intended for intensive care and intensive care units - from newborns to adult patients;
- 1 electric portable vacuum cleaner, model HomeJet 1000R, Spencer with built-in rechargeable battery for 45-60 min. autonomous operation;
- 1 children's inhaler;
- 1 electronic scale for babies and children;
- 1 ECG device.
The donation is worth BGN 13,488, which the foundation had at its disposal.
Donors who read on the social network about the condition of the children's covid ward provided most of the necessary amount for the rest of the equipment already on Friday:
- 2 the infusome;
- 1 infusion perfusor;
- 1 portable pulse oximeter.
It will be delivered next week.
In the previous wave, the proportion of hospitalized children was 4%, now it is 10%. Since the beginning of the current wave, 66 children have passed through the ward. 6 of them were on oxygen therapy in the intensive care unit. Until now, there has been no death of a child from the virus in this hospital. We hope so.
Let's protect the children!
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