In 1937 the Patriotic Institute for Social Welfare and Understanding (ΠΙΚΠΑ) and the Penteli Recuperation Home were founded on a 40 hectare plot leased from the Holy Monastery of Penteli. In 1981 the facility was turned into the Penteli Hospital for Children and in 1991 into the Penteli General Hospital for Children. Today it is one of the three hospitals for Children in Attica. Its eight clinics, various departments and laboratories aim to provide integrated medical care for patients up to the age of 16 years and training for doctors, as well as to implement educational and research programmes.
The Non-profit Civil Company AEGEAS, aware of the Hospital’s leading role in the healthcare of children in the wide catchment area of northern and eastern Attica, and being particularly conscious during the covid-19 pandemic of the need to support the National Health Service and especially children, has made a series of donations to the Hospital.
Moreover, on target for completion in 2023 is the donation of equipment for the 2nd Paediatric Clinic and the Neurological Department, with the supply of 30 electric beds and modern bedside tables.
Aim of the project was the spatial separation of the non-emergency and the urgent cases of which there was a rapid increase at the height of the covid-19 pandemic. The intervention was made to an existing space in outpatients’ section, which was given its own entrance and an outside shelter, and was connected by a metal bridge with the central complex of the Hospital. Construction works involved the total remodelling of the examination rooms, the offices for the medical and nursing personnel, and the reception area of the secretariat. The donation also included the supply of ultramodern medical devices.
The creation of the new unit secured the avoidance of overcrowding and possible transmission of diseases, and with the arrangement of a lovely and pleasant space for the young patients, constitutes a model unit for emergency cases.
