The Foundation for Premature Children and Their Families

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The Foundation helps specific families with their particular needs associated with a premature baby.

The Foundation and It’s Objectives

The Foundation for Premature Children and Their Families was established in December 2013 by Hana Píšová and Markéta Stránská. The Foundation was created on the basis of our own experience with giving birth to premature twins. The Foundation aims to help families which, following the birth of premature children, find themselves in difficult financial and psychological situations...

ÚPMD

The Institute for the Care of Mother and Child in Prague is one of the leading facilities in the Czech Republic for gynaecology, obstetrics and neonatology. It is one of twelve perinatal centres in the country. The network of perinatal centres was officially established by the Czech Ministry of Health in 1995 to provide specialized obstetric and neonatal care at the highest level with a staff of skilled professionals and modern technology...

A Word from the Founders

Hana Píšová
Personal experience motivated me to establish the Foundation. Our twin babies were born prematurely at 24 weeks. Their birth weights were 680 g and 700 g, and they spent their first four months in an incubator...

Who and How We Help

The Foundation helps specific families with their particular needs associated with a premature baby, including.

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How You Can Help

Thank you for visiting this section on our website. Thanks to your support, we can help families in difficult financial and psychological situations. We established the Foundation for Premature Children and Their Families based on our own experience, but you can help us bring it to life with your contributions.

The Issue of Premature Babies

Premature birth is a global problem. As in the other advanced countries of Europe, the frequency of premature births in the Czech Republic is around 7%, i.e. 7,000-8,000 infants are born prematurely in the county each year. The Czech Republic is a leader in the successful treatment of these newborns.

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