Let's Help More Than 100 Children with Cancer

During the last three months, Childhood Cancer Fund Rugute provided monthly and non-recurring charity of 2,368.86 Eur to families with children that have been diagnosed with oncological diseases. The families used this money to purchase necessary medical care supplies and to cover their traveling expenses and other costs that they could not have avoided due to their child’s disease.

Following the request of an oncologist of Kaunas Clinics (University of Health Sciences of Lithuania), in order to continue the effective cancer treatment by the medicine Temozolomide, the Fund purchased 8 quantities of Temozolomide Teva 100 mg N5 for one young female cancer patient with a brain tumor. The medicine cost 878.30 Eur.

In order to continue improving the psychological well-being of the little oncology patients, the Fund purchased 3 items of central venous catheters and 360 items of special needles (to be used with these catheters) for 2,051.40 Eur. Long-term central venous catheters and the special needles are known to improve the psychological well-being of the little children who are undergoing treatment, because they allow them to avoid pain and multiple peripheral catheter insertion into the vein procedures.

One of the most common side effects of chemotherapy is mouth ulcerations that worsen the physical and emotional condition of the young patient: children are unable to eat and suffer severe pain. In order to ease these symptoms, the Fund purchased a quantity of mouthwash solution Caphosol and a quantity of mouthwash solution Aftamed for 363.75 Eur.

Within the past three months Rugute purchased 2 professional blood pressure monitors that will ease the patient care and will allow the nurses to estimate the patients’ condition more precisely. Total cost – 462.58 Eur.

The Fund also provided the Children’s Oncohaematology Center of Vilnius Children’s Hospital with a special medical file storage cabinet. The cabinet cost 1,679.80 Eur.

For the past three months, Rugute was also able to continue covering the maintenance costs of Rugute’s Home, the only facility in Lithuania that provides temporary accommodation to the young cancer patients and their family members, free of charge. This facility is a shelter for the families that live far away from the hospital, and is especially appreciated by the young cancer patients for its cozy and playful home environment.

On the 12th of December, 2014, Rugute’s partners from Sweden arrived to Lithuania for the 8^th time in a row. The Swedish guests traditionally visited all the childhood cancer patients being treated in Vilnius and Kaunas hospitals. They brought gifts to the children and created a true Christmas miracle for them.

Dear friends, we wish to express our heartfelt thanks to every one of you for kindly contributing to our mission. Every penny, received from you, is spent with great consideration and responsibility. We are so proud of what we have achieved together. Many thanks and best regards to all of you from our little patients and their parents!