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"Pediatric Trauma Care" is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose sole purpose is to raise awareness on children's accidents in Greece, reduce their number and severity and to improve care.
Read more: www.pedtrauma.gr
Our goal is to upgrade and equip the Paediatric Departments and Clinics of the Hospitals and Health Centers in Greece with the necessary machinery, so that doctors can provide the best possible medical care to their young patients.
Children from infancy to the age of 16 years old who visit the public Hospitals of Greece.
From 2010 to the present date.
The upgrading and donation of equipment to Paediatric Departments is of vital importance. Due to the lack of proper, modern equipment, as well as the large amount of cases they are called to cover, the doctors in public Hospitals face great difficulties, and the children do not always receive the optimal treatment and care.
We constantly receive new requests from Paediatric Departments of Hospitals and Health Centers throughout the country and we try to respond to all of them, offering necessary medical equipment wherever it is required. The amount of requests increased even more after the pandemic, which highlighted the vital need to strengthen the country’s Healthcare System, and brought to light the significant shortage of proper equipment that exists in the public Hospitals.
With the support of the members, sponsors, donors and friends of our Charity, and without any government funding, we donate necessary medical equipment to the Paediatric Departments of Hospitals and Health Centers throughout Greece.
Our goal is to ensure that our children will lead healthy and prosperous lives.
Our work in upgrading the Paediatric Departments helps improve the quality of health care provided to children who visit the Paediatric Departments and Clinics in the public Hospitals and Health Centers of the country.
The Departments that have been upgraded can now provide more immediate and effective medical care to the visiting children. Supporting all Paediatric Departments with the donation of equipment is of vital importance for the proper care of an injured child, especially in remote areas and the islands of Greece, which have limited access to Hospital Units with more advanced equipment, particularly during the winter months.
Since 2020, we have equipped 61 new Hospitals and donated additional equipment to another 16 Hospitals we had equipped in the past. We offered a total of 681 machines and equipment.
Since the Program began in 2010, we have managed to upgrade and equip 135 Paediatric Departments in 115 Hospitals and Health Centers in Greece.
Furthermore, we decided to introduce the subject and importance of Trauma Prevention to the Paediatric Hospitals. To that end, we sent our brochures on Trauma Prevention (e.g. “Safety at the Playground”, “Swimming Saves Lives”, etc.) to the Hospitals and Health Centers we have equipped up to now, in order to inform the parents visiting the Hospitals. So far, we have distributed more than 60.750 brochures to 101 Hospitals and Health Centers.
According to the statistics of the Hospitals we have equipped, from 2010 up to the present date more than 2.010.000 children have benefitted from our Charity’s work.
Our work in upgrading and equipping the Paediatric Departments in a large number of Hospitals throughout Greece brings us closer to our ultimate goal of improving the quality of medical care provided to the children in our country.
