Supporting The Medical Units That Provide Treatment Services for Children with Cancer at The Children’s Hospital and Al-Beirouni Hospital:

A)     The Children’s Hospital:

In addition to securing all the medicines that are not available at The Children’s Hospital, BASMA Association has continued supporting this unit in order to provide better quality services with more comfort for children. In that sense Basma recruited and trained staff members and provided the needed non-medical supplies, children’s care supplies, soft foods as well as soft snacks.

The number of employees assigned by BASMA Association for this unit is as follows:

–        one Oncologist

–        4  caregivers

–        one cleaning worker

–        6 Part-time nurses, since the number of nurses assigned by the hospital is insufficient.

–        3  Anesthesiologists to perform anesthesia for children during the extremely painful paracentesis process, which was performed without anesthesia before 2007.

The costs of The Children’s Hospital Support Program in 2023 have reached 100,871,020 SYP, excluding the costs of the medicines mentioned previously in the medicines support program.

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B)     Al-Beirouni Hospital Outside BASMA Unit:

BASMA Association has continued supporting the Hospital by providing the unavailable medicines and securing the surgeries that are not available at the hospital through private medical centers and hospitals. The costs of Al-Beirouni Hospital support program in 2023 was 56,582,000  SYP, excluding the costs of the medicines mentioned previously in the medicines support program.

Autologous stem cell transplant in the children hospital

The autologous stem cell transplant in children aims at improving the cure rate for the children with cancer and especially those diagnosed with neuroblastoma and some types of lymphoma like Hodgkin Lymphoma.

BASMA played a major role in the opening of the stem cell transplant center in The Children University Hospital, especially with regards to the Autologous stem cell transplant.

In 2023, 3 children underwent an autologous stem cell transplant ( 2 from the children hospital and one for Basma unit).

This program cost till end of 2023: 147,206,900 SYP.