The next performance of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity is less than a month away, on January 26. For the 33rd time, the orchestra is playing around the world, this time for children’s oncology and hematology. More than 120,000 volunteers share 47 million hearts.
This year they got married at the Poland Rock festival. – If it wasn’t for the festival, we probably would never have gotten married, – says Jacek Onopyuk. They are currently auctioning off a wedding dress and a Christmas Grand Orchestra costume. – It’s a shame to hang it in the wardrobe, we will auction it for the Great Christmas Charity Orchestra and I hope the price of this set will be good – emphasizes Izabela Wroblewska.
You can now bid as the first auctions have started. The auction includes, among other things, meetings with stars, athletes and rare items. This year, the orchestra will play for children with cancer who, together with doctors, fight for their health and life every day.
“If we collected more than PLN 282 million like last year, oncology and hematology would be provided with everything we dreamed of, experts told us what to buy,” says Jurek Owsiak, president of WOŚP.
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Most children with cancer can be saved
Modern equipment is needed to fight cancer, which affects even the smallest.
– More than 1200 new cases of childhood cancer are diagnosed every year. Today, thanks to advances in medicine, more than 80 percent of patients can be cured, but this effective anti-cancer treatment is very expensive – explains prof. Valentina Balwierz from the University Children’s Hospital in Krakow.
The last time WOŚP played for oncology was 10 years ago.
– We have syringe pumps, suction machines, heart monitors from the WOŚP fund. Due to the fact that the number of these patients is constantly increasing, (…) we hope that Mr. Owsiak will give us something this year, – says Iwona Świerczek-Skwierawska, a medical nurse at the University Children’s Hospital in Krakow.
Unfortunately, the equipment wears out quickly. Therefore, the list of needs in hospital wards is very long.
– We need to change our ultrasound room. “Ultrasound scanners, which are red in our country, conduct hundreds of thousands of tests,” says Dr. Hab. MD Ninela Irga-Jaworska, hematologist, oncologist and pediatrician from the clinical center of the University of Gdańsk.
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Supported by the Polish Health Foundation
In just four weeks, each of us can help. The money raised will be used to purchase modern diagnostic equipment that will help doctors fight cancer and other serious hematological diseases in children.
– Later distribution is for all 18 children’s oncology centers, – explains Jurek Owsiak.
– If Polish hospitals are equipped with the best, modern equipment, it means that we can be in Poland to treat our children, we don’t need to look for help abroad, – emphasizes the professor. extraordinary candidate of sciences. n med Anna Raciborska, head of the Department of Oncology and Oncological Surgery for Children and Adolescents, Mother and Child Institute in Warsaw.
For 32 years, the Great Christmas Charity Orchestra has been playing with millions of Poles. So far, it has collected more than PLN 2 billion, which has been spent on the purchase of more than 70,000 pieces of medical equipment.
The 33rd final of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. He will play for the realization of the dreams of the hematology and oncology departments of TVN24
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