Equipment for the fight against sepsis
The GOCC Foundation has just completed the three-day-long 66th Open Tender held to buy medical equipment for the fight against sepsis. The Foundation spent a record-breaking amount of PLN 168 million!
We base this nationwide programme on three main pillars: diagnostics, state-of-the-art equipment, and cancer awareness. Overall, we have spent over PLN 88 million and donated 566 medical devices. In addition, within the framework of this programme, we have:
Every year around 1300 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer. Even though cancer is rarely diagnosed in children and adolescents, and treatment is getting more effective (currently 70-80% recoveries), it is still the second leading cause of death amongst children and adolescents (1+ year).
Diagnosing cancer at its early stage may increase the odds of a child's recovery. Unfortunately, in Poland, early diagnosis of early cancer is only 8%, while the rate in Western Europe is 25%.
We strongly believe that our activities in all three areas will enable us to achieve the essential goal - a definite improvement of cancer diagnostics at its early stBut, ofe. Of course, this objective won't be achieved without collaboration with oncologists, family doctors, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Health and the National Health Fund.
The GOCC Foundation has just completed the three-day-long 66th Open Tender held to buy medical equipment for the fight against sepsis. The Foundation spent a record-breaking amount of PLN 168 million!