The best way Adel Gómez Mastrapa found to thank for the attention given to his epileptic child in the pediatric hospital of Holguín Octavio de la Concepción de la Pedraja was through a donation of toys to patients admitted to the Oncohematology ward of that institution.
The illness of this son, with who he lives in the rural community of Melones, in the municipality of Rafael Freyre, means having to go to the health center on several occasions; where, he admits, has received very good attention.
That is where the idea of the donation came from. It is the grateful father himself who says “I wanted to make a gesture with the children in this pediatric ward by donating toys to make them feel better, since they are going through a difficult time in their lives, such as receiving treatment for a disease like cancer.
“That is why I wanted to have the opportunity to give them a present to thank them for the times that my little boy has been admitted, as well as the attention of the health professionals who work there with him”.
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This gesture of humanism and tenderness was very well received by the institution. Dr. María Paneque Mendoza, assistant director of the hospital’s Serious Care Department, explained that she received the gift on behalf of the hospital’s board of directors with gratitude, since the patients hospitalized in this service are characterized by a long stay, which often turns them into children in need of affection, little interaction with other children of their age and fewer hours of play due to the treatments they receive. The hospital will always keep its doors open for gestures like this one, of good will.
This donation is part of the contribution of the Holguin society to the children hospitalized with cancer in the provinces of Las Tunas, Granma and Holguin.
This ward provides treatment to pediatric patients diagnosed with lymphomas, infantile acute lymphoblastic leukemia and other types of hematological cancer.
Precisely, the Pediatric Hospital of Holguin is currently a reference center for the specialty of Oncohematology, where an encouraging survival rate is achieved, an example of the will of the group of professionals who work there to guarantee the most valuable thing that the human being has, which is the life of the little ones.
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