Chemist Warehouse Catalogue - 07/08-20/08/2020 (Page 4)

health support and hope words siobhan duck ospitals can be a scary place for have become a lot less bleak thanks to the efforts of the my room children's cancer charity my room was founded in 1992 by the marcocci mcgrath and rathbone families who shared a common goal - to bring some home comfort to their children while they were battling cancer at the royal children's hospital in melbourne back then the oncology ward was not and the results of treatments undergone by children such as maurizio marcocci peter mcgrath and matthew rathbone were in no way as promising as they are now to renovate the royal children's hospital cancer ward in the 28 years since the volunteer-led comfort to hundreds of australian children at the royal children's hospital and melbourne's monash children's hospital my room has raised more than $22 million to help families pay for necessary equipment that can make life more comfortable for children receiving treatment it also provides on-the-ground services to struggling families with financial assistance and the aid of a dedicated my room also funds ground-breaking research and clinical trials the three families who started it all continue to play active roles in my room with a now grown-up and fully recovered maurizio serving as chairman my room research fellowships named in their honour grieving father maurice d'alberti says he is forever grateful for the financial support that my room gave him while his son adam died not long after his fourth of my room that he was able to be by his son's side throughout his 10-month ordeal "my room gave me whatever time i had left with my boy' maurice says "they gave me so much more than normal stress out of day-to-day-life." adam are yet another reminder to my room chief executive officer margaret zita of how much work still needs to be children's cancer "when my room was founded 28 years ago the prognosis was not good for children with cancer," margaret says "we would expect to see about 42 per about 84 per cent will not be satisfied until we see a 100 per cent recovery rate "that is why we are committed to bringing the very best treatments and technologies to australia to give children the care that they deserve health and welfare estimated 804 children under the age of 14 were newly diagnosed with cancer "cancer is still the biggest killer for children.' margaret says "my room would like to see the same sense of urgency given to finding for childhood cancer." she says the charity liaises with its team inside the two hospitals to provide targeted and immediate assistance to families most recently my room organised for to a young patient who had returned home to receive palliative care "we are a volunteer-led organisation which means the funds raised by my room supports patients and families during their treatment journey and into their future "we give help where it is needed most when it is needed most acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and dravet face of the 2019 nine my room telethon my room children's cancer charity to donate visit myroom.com.au exte01 zolow.vo