The organization “Save the Children” and the team of the Clinical Hospital “Dr. I. Cantacuzino” organized, on the occasion of the Premature Day, a meeting between the doctors of the Neonatology Department and over 50 children born prematurely in the period 2009 – 2015.
“Thank God we had the chance and the luck to do everything very well. Every minute, every second is a challenge for us. I can’t imagine what life is like with a child. It seems to me like life with one child it would be extremely easy. I got used to the hardship, the hardship to me means something beautiful, since they appeared it means something beautiful “, declared the parents of some quadruplets, saved with the help of the Cantacuzino Hospital staff.
Adrian Sorin Craciun, chief physician of the Newborn Department at Cantacuzino Hospital, spoke about the feeling he has when saving the little ones’ lives.
“It’s fantastic! You know – all these kids were between life and death, they were little gags I shot at … I never lost hope, they were small, very small and I was looking at them now, These four children you see here weighed between 1,100 and 1,400 grams and are just like the others now.
I weighed 600 grams, 700 grams, no matter the weight, life … life beats the movie. It’s worth shooting for, this day is our holiday because it shows us that we have to keep shooting. No matter how small the chances, no matter how small the child, you have to shoot, because look what comes out – children come out like all children “, said the doctor.
He also referred to one of the cases that marked him the most in his career.
“Perhaps the hardest case was 15 years ago, I had two 1,000-gram twins and they were both having apnea – they forgot to breathe and I had only one ventilator and I didn’t know which one to put on the device. I called my mother and I said, ‘I have a fan and two children, I don’t know which one to put it on.’
In the end, they both escaped, but it was hard … it’s very hard. It was the hardest moment of my life, because I had to choose between two, in the end they both escaped, but there are decisions you should not make, there should be no restrictions, there should be no lack of fans, incubators, you have to have everything you need, not to ask yourself the problem ‘I give it to someone, I don’t give it to someone else’ “, Adrian Craciun explained.
He also discussed the problems he faces in the hospital and the deficiencies in the Romanian medical system.
“Now the hospital has everything it needs, unfortunately it doesn’t have enough places, we are now trying to expand our intensive care unit, which has nine places, and in fact 12 children are entering, we are trying to get up to 15 places, for as the requirement is high.
We need more places, we need more people, we need more, but we go forward, because we have something to shoot. The problem with the staff is a big problem, unfortunately in Romania, due to the conditions, people run away from the medical system and go abroad, go in private, I can’t condemn them, everyone decides for him, but if no measures are taken “It will soon be hard, very, very hard,” the doctor said.
Adrian Craciun, however, was optimistic about the section he leads.
“I was lucky in my maternity because I had a fantastic team and I didn’t lose too many, in five years only one doctor and about three nurses left, but in other places it was not the same and it is very difficult to train. a man of intensive care, that he is a doctor, that he is a nurse “, Craciun added.
The youngest premature baby cared for at the Cantacuzino Maternity Hospital – a little girl from Bucharest – had 600 grams and was born at just 24 weeks pregnant. The little one is now a normal and healthy child, she recently turned 2 years old and was present on Saturday at the event.
Another special case is that of quadruplets born prematurely in December 2015. They are now 9 months old and came from Pitesti, together with their parents, to the party organized at the maternity hospital.
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