Three new Italian hospitals to treat children for free Venezolana who need bone marrow transplant. This is the core of the agreement signed Tuesday between PDVSA Salud, and the non-profit organization Ftmo Italian regions, suggesting that cooperation between Italy and Venezuela is not limited to oil and infrastructure. Through this cooperative network, already 120 Venezolana youth have benefited from an operation to transplant bone marrow in Italy free. The collaboration with three cities in addition to the existing one with the regions of Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio, who participate by offering their own hospitals and specific training courses Venezuelan doctors. A brief will also attend four hospitals in the Lombardia region. CARACAS - not just oil and infrastructure. Italy and Venezuela also collaborate in the health sector, with projects contained but effective, able to save the lives of many children and adolescents. To confirm the signing on Tuesday in the spaces of PDVSA Salud, which three hospitals of Padua, Bologna and Genoa have become part of the existing Agreement between the Fundación para el Trasplante Medula osea de Maracaibo (Ftmo), PDVSA Salud and Italian regions: an agreement by which 120 young people already Venezolana with cancer and hematologic have benefited from transplant surgery to bone marrow in Italy free.
collaboration with three cities in addition to the existing one with the regions of Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio (soon to join the project includes four clinics in the Lombardia region) involved in providing their own hospitals and training programs specific to Venezuelan doctors.
Present at the First Counsellor of the Embassy of Italy, Alberto Pieri, the president of PDVSA Salud, Dr. Dario Merchán, the president of Ftmo, Mercedes Alvarez, the director general of the Foundation, Enrica Giavatto, originally Sicilian and the head of the affairs of Venezuela in Italy, Yvelise Martínez.
- In relations between the two countries, the Memorandum of Understanding of 2006, the Intergovernmental Agreement signed by the Joint Commission II, the issue of health has never been forgotten - the Voice says the First Counsellor Alberto Pieri - and Embassy as we further strengthen and institutionalize cooperation in place, however, developing skills in working independently of Venezuela, especially in the public sector. At the time - he continues - there are only two hospitals in the country for bone marrow transplantation, significantly short of demand .
The two structures Venezolana mentioned in the diplomatic, the private capital of the Hospital de Clínicas and the public in Valencia, the Ciudad Hospitalaria Enrique Tejera (which ended 2009 with 38 transactions), operating only in marrow transplants family compatibility. This is where the agreement. Leukemia, cancer, congenital malformations. The foundation, a charity in contact with hospitals Venezolana, learns the more severe cases, mostly children of humble extraction who do not have the ability to heal and look for donors in Venezuela and abroad. Plan your trip to Italy for the patient and the family and especially to think that their stay in the country, between different treatments and operation of nearly two years. A program that includes not only clinical but also social events: schools, Italian courses, a few small tour in major cities of Italy.
- The child must not remember Italy as a hospital ward - said Dr. Mercedes Alvarez, president of the Foundation.
In the project, PDVSA Salud contributes 13-15 thousand Euros per patient, everything else to the regions.
- that of bone marrow transplants is a problem on time and high cost - explains Dr. Dario Merchán, physician and president of onncologo Pdvesa Salud -. Every year one hundred new cases arise in the country but Venezuela still does not have the know-how, technology and infrastructure needed to treat these patients while the United States that could do it, they see these children as a commodity and only asking $ 750,000 for the operation. Through this agreement with Italy - continued - PDVSA helps to solve the problems of the country, keeping its promise to invest oil revenues in other sectors such as primary health care. But there is still much to do. A child who fails to put into this project - decrees - is a child who dies.
The idea underlying the cooperation between Italy and Venezuela, next operation on the Peninsula, is a project of formation, which standardized diagnostic and treatment protocol by medical and scientific courses and seminars. Already Venezolana 35 doctors were asked to specialize in Italy, and 15 Italians have lectured on the topic in Venezuela. Umbria is the region most engaged on this front, thanks to the contribution of prof. Aversa and prof. Martelli, Unique in Europe experts in transplants with low family compatibility.
- The agreement with Italy and the Foundation satisfies our need for training and academic preparation - says Dr. Merchán - but then it is important that physicians remain to operate in the public sector. Unfortunately, many are fleeing abroad or the brains to go private putting their medical vocation in second place compared to the portfolio.
echoes Dr. Mercedes Alvarez:
- The idea that 'private is good' must be fought by our duty as members of a society that defines itself civilized. The public health system in Venezuela is booming and you are doing so. the cancer patient, for example, now the primary focus is guaranteed and free of high-cost drugs. But the road is still long.
The government's commitment is a primary factor for the development of the health system. What the Foundation has been able to Maracaibo to do in the eight years between 1997 and 2005 with the private sector, treating 31 children, has passed in less than two years (2006 - 2008) with the help of the government failing to meet the needs of nearly 50 children. As he told the Voice Dr. Alvarez, taking the words of President Chavez, "the funding and cooperation need not be seen from a monetary point of view: training opportunities offered to us from Italy are a perfect example of help and investment in the future. "
emphasizes the first Director Alberto Pieri:
- The Agreement on the bone marrow is a small but important project, a pilot experiment for future possibility of cooperation outside the oil sector.
Italy is also supporting the humanitarian project of the European Union, which opened in 2002, which allocates funds all'ospitalizzazione robust and treatment of non-EU foreign nationals.
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