In April, the Adult Wake Clinic will celebrate its first anniversary of operation. By this time, it has already managed to increase the number of beds, the clinic can accommodate patients' relatives, and doctors have gained the opportunity to work with the latest advances in science, which, as the slogan of the launching campaign says, does not sleep.
Science is not sleeping. Instead, it gives more tools to wake people up to life
Published March 22, 2024 13:34
fot. Piotr Wójcik
- Almost a year ago we admitted the first patients here. In the meantime, we have increased the number of beds to 17. However, there are still a great number of people with serious head injuries and hypoxic brain injuries waiting for help," says well-known neurosurgeon Professor Wojciech Maksymowicz, a member of the clinic's board of directors.
At the Adult Alarm Clock Clinic, families live with their loved ones who are ill. As Prof. Maksymowicz stressed, Ewa Blaszczyk has long fought for such a possibility, and it has been realized, as in the Alarm Clock for Children.
However, clinic development takes place not only at the organizational level, but also at the level that involves the tools that doctors can use in their work with patients.
- We prepare research programs that can only exist thanks to the strong commitment of the Foundation and donors. Through cooperation with the most prominent centers in Poland and abroad, including Cambridge, we have access to the most advanced equipment and programs. We can try to act stimulatively on the brain through electrical energy, light stimulation or magnetic fields. All these methods are non-invasive. We use them as part of our research programs," the professor stresses.
Ewa Blaszczyk, president of the Akogo? Foundation, points out that science is constantly developing and each day brings new discoveries. Thanks to them, the paradigm of care for the sick, especially those in coma, is changing.
- The first man, who was implanted with a chip as part of Elon Musk's venture, communicated with his surroundings by means of thoughts, and he urged the whole world to continue this kind of research, because it is possible to transmit thoughts in this way. It is worth investing even unbelievable energy and money," recalls Ewa Blaszczyk.
The Adult Alarm Clock Clinic is launching its Wake Up to Life campaign, whose slogan is "Science doesn't sleep." The author of the campaign's identity is well-known graphic artist Andrzej Pągowski. The logotype includes a magnifying glass. As the author says, it has a symbolic meaning.
- Doctors rely on the latest discoveries and scientific achievements to figure out how to help people who are in a coma and whom they are waking up to life. A magnifying glass is the symbol of such scientific insight and not sleeping," stresses Andrzej Pągowski.
