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Doctor highlights of the Foundation Sara

Gazette Norte Mineira
August 4th, 2009
12h06m

Foundation Sara Albuquerque Costa, created in order to assist children and adolescents with cancer and hematologic deficiency, have a branch office in Belo Horizonte. Currently there are around 500 per month for lodging patients and family members of 77 municipalities in Northern Minas Gerais and southern Bahia. According to the oncologist Joaquim Caetano Aguirre, who 40 years working in the Santa Casa, rather than the structure, the spirit of the Foundation Sara will be key to improving the service.

Joaquim Caetano was who took the suggestion to the capital after having passed by the foundation last year. He came to develop the program of early diagnosis, which will also be made in the region of BH. Foundation Sara has about 420 registered Watched. The forecast is that the house in Belo Horizonte begins to meet in October. The reform of pediatric oncology, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, depends on fundraising.

In Belo Horizonte, the foundation will work in a rented house in the neighborhood Luke. But the work in the capital did not stop there. Beyond the site, there is a partnership with the Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte in the development of the project of humanization of the hospital. Doctors there came to Montes Claros to disseminate the work.

Oncology children and adolescents, increasingly, has become a medical specialty in which the personalities of their assisted children and adolescents, are the mainstays of treatment. This approach is paying off, and the main centers specializing in childhood cancer, already reaches 70% cure, especially when it presents an early diagnosis.

"And when a cure for cancer in a child is possible, all efforts in favor of life are valid. That is why the Foundation Sara Albuquerque Costa, 10 years ago, gathers the strength to help children and teenagers with cancer and congenital anemias, and support their families, "says the assistant Rosana Pinto Soares. 

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Foundation Sara was created in order to assist children and adolescents with cancer and hematologic disabilities that are the case in the city of Montes Claros. Exactly one year ago, the Foundation opened its new headquarters, which currently assists 383 children and adolescents. In addition to psychological support for their families.

The social worker Rosana Pinto Smith explains that the foundation is a charitable organization without any political, religious, or other than to help and assist the needy children. The organization provides children, accommodation and meals, social assistance at different stages of treatment, occupational therapy with educational, cultural and leisure opportunities for children and adolescents but also for the companion, and support required to obtain the drugs, tests, dental treatment, walkways, soliciting donations to public and private food supplies, among others.

Whoever wants to know and help in social projects of the Foundation Sara just go to the new headquarters, located at Rua André Luiz, 415, Bairro Canelas II. The phone for further information is 3214 - 5500 or 3214 to 3796.

By: Giovanni Ribeiro - Reporter