3rd Cycle | “Collaborating for Health” Programme

The “Collaborating for Health” Programme is a joint initiative of the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation and the Greek Shipowners’ Social Welfare Company SYN-ENOSIS, which has been implemented since 2018 and concerns the financing of small and medium-scale projects, its aim being to meet urgent needs of the public health sector and to improve the services of healthcare providers in Greece, through the supply of medical equipment and the upgrade of their infrastructure.

In 2021, the implementation of the 3rd round of the Programme was completed, which focused on supporting units/departments of Hospitals and Health Centres providing vital healthcare services for children and newborns. More specifically, the following donations were completed in 2021:

1. . PNOE – Friends of Children in Intensive Care

Supply of one neonatal ventilator for the upgrade of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the University General Hospital of Heraklion.

• Approximately 600 newborns per year are treated in the NICU.

2. PNOE – Friends of Children in Intensive Care

Supply of one neonatal ventilator for the upgrade of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the University General Hospital of Ioannina.

• Approximately 500 newborns per year will benefit from the new modern ventilator delivered to the NICU.

3. General Hospital of Preveza

Supply of a closed-type incubator with electronic weighing scale for the Obstetrics Clinic.

• Approximately 200 premature newborns per year will benefit from the new closed-type incubator installed in the Obstetrics Clinic.

4. General University Hospital of Alexandroupoli

Supply of a neonatal ventilator, a hybrid-type incubator, a nitric oxide (NO) machine, and an EEG machine for the Department of Neonatology – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

• The Department supports about 5,000 births per year and treats about 500 premature newborns.

5. Athens General Children’s Hospital “P. & A. Kyriakou”

Supply of two neonatal ventilators to upgrade the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

• More than 120 newborns per year will benefit from the use of the new ventilators.

6. General and Maternity Hospital “Helena Venizelou”

Supply of two closed-type incubators and one nitric oxide (NO) machine for the Neonatal Department – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

• The NICU covers the needs of the maternity hospitals of Attica, the Peloponnese and the Aegean Islands, serving more than 2,000 newborns per year.

7. General Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”

Supply of two closed-type incubators and two neonatal ventilators for the upgrade of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

• Approximately 450 newborns per year will benefit from the use of the new closed-type incubators and the new neonatal ventilators installed in the Unit.

8.  General University Hospital of Larissa

Supply of a neonatal ventilator, an encephalograph machine and other medical equipment for the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Thessaly.

• The Department of Pediatrics serves approximately 13,500 children per year.

9. General Hospital – Health Centre of Neapoli “Dialinakeio”

Supply of medical equipment for the Pediatric Clinic.

• Approximately 1,500 children per year benefit from the services provided by the pediatrician of the structure in collaboration with the nursing staff of the Healthcare Centre.

10. Health Centre of Karditsa

Supply of medical equipment for the Pediatric Unit.

• It is estimated that about 4,000 children per year will benefit from the upgrade in the Unit's infrastructure.

11. Open Arms Hug – Friends of Social Paediatrics and Medicine” Association

Renovation and supply of equipment of the Mother’s Milk Bank of the General and Maternity Hospital “Helena Venizelou”.

• About 30% of mothers of premature newborns are unable to support their newborns with their own breast milk. In these cases, milk from donor mothers is required; this milk is processed and tested by the Mother’s Milk Bank, which has been operating since 1947, being among the first ones in the world and the only one in Greece.

12. General Hospital of Karpenissi

Supply of a neonatal resuscitation unit and other medical equipment for the Pediatric Clinic.

• The Clinic provides prevention, treatment and secondary care to about 6,000 children up to 16 years of age, as well as perinatal care to 100 newborns per year.

13. “Ippokrateio” General Hospital of Thessaloniki

Supply of a video gastroscope and other gastroenterological endoscopic equipment for the 3rd Pediatric Clinic of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

• In the Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit of the Clinic, 40 emergency and 70 diagnostic endoscopies are performed annually, serving approximately 600 children.

14. AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki

Supply of an ultrasonography system and upgrade of the MRI scanner for clinical use of pediatric cases in the Pediatric Radiology Unit.

• The Pediatric Radiology Unit admits about 7,000 children per year, including pediatric oncology cases.

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