The work of the Foundation for the Development of the National Children’s Hospital never ends. They recently launched a web site aiming not only to bring the population to the work they do, but also, to promote the sponsorship by companies and people.
The Foundation was created on October 3rd, 1986. Since then its primary objective is to promote children’s medicine, health and well-being.
This new platform is a significant tool for the foundation, as it frequently has to solve emergency situations of different sectors of the hospital, such as purchases of priority equipment whose costs cannot be covered by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS). They are also in charge of training and conferences, or different initiatives that advocate for Costa Rican children’s health.
We have seen that unity is strength. The old Game Room, for example, was remodeled thanks to 38 private companies who provided knowledge, plans, money and materials, and today we have the Recreational Therapy Unit,”
said Dr. Carlos Jiménez, president of the Foundation and deputy director of the medical center.
Currently, the priority of this foundation is the remodeling of the section of external consultation of orthopedics and the emergency external consultation.
Dr. Jiménez explained that orthopedics is the specialty of the hospital that has more annual appointments, about 22 thousand patients, and many of the offices are now not individual, but that they serve two or three patients simultaneously, which does not gives the required privacy.
According to the official, the amounts collected by the Telethon each year, do not go entirely to the National Children’s Hospital, but only a third, which is generally intended for equipment and not so much for remodeling.
We now have the website where people can see the projects that have already been completed, also the sponsors that have collaborated more strongly to be able to complete these projects that result in tremendous benefit for the children and for the hospital to continue at the forefront in the management of pediatrics in Latin America,”
commented Jiménez.