Did you know that each child born in a Polish hospital has its hearing tested? Our National Newborn Hearing Screening Programme aims to detect hearing defects in children at the earliest possible stage to ensure that treatment can begin as soon as possible, and children do not miss out on experiencing the world. Hering defects influence a child's overall development - speech, intelligence, and emotional development are all affected. It is worth noting that before it reaches five years of age, the child amasses almost 50% of its awareness of the world. Hearing defects greatly hinder that process. It is worth noting that congenital hearing defects are among the most common congenital defects.
We launched this joint initiative with the Polish Society of Otolaryngologists - Surgeons of Ear, Nose, and Throat, Polish Neonatal Society, and with the support of Ministry of Health and National Health Fund, in 2003. Over 1000 babies are screened every day!
This medical initiative is made possible thanks to the commitment of the medical personnel: we know that the work of neonatal nurses, otolaryngologists, audiologists, phoniatric doctors, psychologists, speech and language therapists, and the hospital office staff is invaluable. We do our best to provide this group of five to six thousand medical personnel with the best equipment possible. We want to make sure that children born in Poland can begin their lives with all the advantages and discover the world fully and to fulfil their potential.
As you already know, we play with everyone and for everyone. What is more, in Warsaw we play in a totally new location! For the first time ever the heart of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity will be beating at the PGE Narodowy meadows.
Warsaw, Poland, the world! The enthusiasm which exploded in our country in 1993 has reached the most distant corners of the world in a flash. Already during the very first Grand Finale, we were present across the ocean!
For the eighteenth time, Jurek Owsiak, this time from the final stage on the PGE Narodowy meadows in Warsaw, opened the joyful run under the same slogan "Get Even with Diabetes". Crowds of running enthusiasts, after a five-kilometre route through the streets of Warsaw, will reach the finish line located in the same place.
