Ewa Błaszczyk is a theatre and film actress, singer and songster.
In 2002, together with Father Wojciech Drozdowicz, author of the program “Ziarno” broadcast by TVP, she established the “Akogo?” Foundation for children requiring rehabilitation after severe traumatic brain injury and their families. Its goal was to build the Neurorehabilitation Clinic “Budzik” at the Children’s Health Centre. The “Budzik” Clinic was launched in July 2013 as the first in Poland model hospital for children after severe brain injuries. The Clinic operates at the Children’s Health Centre in Warsaw. The construction of the Clinic of which cost exceeded PLN 20 million was financed by the ”Akogo?” Foundation thanks to the dedication of many individual donors, firms and the EU funds.
The medical personnel succeeded in waking up as many as 30 children from a coma. The complete therapeutic and rehabilitation programme includes pharmacotherapy, conservative treatment, nursing and childcare services, the rehabilitation programme, the treatment programme supporting kinesiotherapy, the psychological programme as well as diagnostics and medical consultations. The treatment programme implemented in the „Budzik” Clinic is recommended by the Health Technology Assessment Agency.
In May this year, at the clinical hospital in Olsztyn the team of Professor Wojciech Maksymowicz – under the guidance of the Japanese neurosurgeon Professor Isao Morita – carried out four pioneering surgeries of implanting the central nervous system promoters in persons in a coma. Professor Morita invited to Poland by the Ewa Błaszczyk’s “Akogo?” Foundation, carried out about 300 surgeries of this type in Japan. These promoters for ill children were provided gratuitously by their manufacturer – Boston Scientific Polska. The next three surgeries in July 2016 were carried out by the Olsztyn’s specialists on their own, and the devices were financed by the Ewa Błaszczyk’s Foundation. The first successes and patients’ wakeups have already been noted.
