A Project for Romania, in Alba Iulia.
Our story
Maria is a girl born prematurely with asphyxia at birth, resulting in neuromotor impairment. Just a few minutes made the difference.
After 320 days of hospitalization during Maria Beatrice’s first two years of life in Romania, Ukraine, and Germany, we understood the Romanian medical system and the need for specialized medical services in Romania, dedicated to premature babies, early prevention, and intervention, where the entire family is considered the patient.
As a result, in 2011, we founded the Maria Beatrice Association and the Maria Beatrice Centre for Children’s Medical Rehabilitation. This centre provides long-term therapy every year for 700 children from across the country, including our own daughter, addressing conditions caused by premature birth, post-traumatic events, and post-surgical needs.
Now, we are building the First Medical Campus in Romania dedicated to premature children, prevention, and early intervention, located in Alba Iulia. This comprehensive medical system includes genetic testing and neonatal consultations before and during pregnancy, paediatric neurology, paediatrics, rehabilitation medicine, physiotherapy, balneology, paediatric orthopaedics, clinical psychology, prenatal and postnatal parental counselling, family counselling, psychiatry, nutrition, and dietetics. The concept is that of Integrated Multidisciplinary Therapy, in which the family is considered a unit cantered around the child.
With a medical team boasting 14 years of expertise in the field of young children’s rehabilitation across a complex array of cases from across the country, we implement programmes to educate and train young mothers and families for a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy, to recognize the signs of premature birth, and to prepare for a normal birth, all for the benefit of healthy children.
In Romania, the proportion of premature births has doubled in the last four years, meaning that almost 2 out of 10 children are now born prematurely, with this trend expected to continue growing in the coming years.
The new social dynamics are changing the entire approach to family, pregnancy, childbirth, and the care and feeding of newborns, especially those born prematurely.
Maria Beatrice is now 16 years old, beautiful and very bright, and her parents, through the Maria Beatrice Association, are building, exclusively from donations and sponsorships, the First Medical Campus in Romania dedicated to Premature Children, Prevention, and Early Intervention. This campus will serve 2,000 children, addressing an identified need in Romania for 6,000–7,000 children annually. This is the kind of support we wish we’d had for our daughter during her first months of life.
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https://www.mariabeatrice.ro/proiecte-specializare-personal/
