For the sixth consecutive year, the Humanizing Health Awardswhich recognize initiatives that contribute to improve the reality of patientsproviding care, advice and health solutions through a more human and comprehensive care.
This year the focus was on rewarding the initiatives that benefit the experience of patients and caregivers.
In Argentina, Teva —who has been in the country for 120 years, originally from Israel and one of the 15 most important pharmaceutical companies in the world— distinguishes each project with 2.5 million pesos to allow institutions, all non-profitcan carry out or continue with initiatives focused on the care and attention of people, always linked to the health and its humanization.
All distinguished initiatives have a common seal: “Embrace the care that comes from the heart,” he explained. Vanina FaillaceCEO of Teva Argentina and Uruguay, and added that to decide which NGOs receive the award, a vote is used that includes Teva employees, doctors, experts, and the general public. “This year 28 projects were presented and we received more than 4,600 votes,” he said.
- “Living ALS as a family” from the Esteban Bullrich Foundation: seeks to provide comprehensive support to patients and families affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)a neurodegenerative disease that severely impairs the quality of life of those who suffer from it.
Every month, the Foundation organizes virtual meetings with specialists in key areas such as nutrition, psychology and kinesiology. In addition, it develops interdisciplinary sessions in collaboration with national universities, aimed at training professionals in the care of this complex pathology.
“We have been in small towns where there was a single patient, totally bewildered and with a family without the tools to accompany him. Next year, with the award that Teva gave us, we hope to reach more families,” said members of the Foundation.
- Argentine League for the Fight Against Cancer (LALCEC). The award-winning project consists of the care of cancer patients and their families, an initiative that seeks meetings to accompany those who go through a cancerbut also embraces with affection and compassion those who accompany patientsbecause this disease also “touches” the family group and the environment.
- The civil association Soles, from Córdoba: specializes in financially and emotionally support the child with cancer and his family during his treatment, and works together with two hospitals in Córdoba, the Santísima Trinidad Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital. In addition, the association has its own home where this year they accommodated more than 65 families whose children had to receive cancer treatment.
As another example of the initiatives that Teva promotes, last year, among other institutions, it received the distinction, Music for the Soul which, with 12 years of experience and more than 600 concerts performed, continues to carry free music to hospitals, institutionalized children’s homes, nursing homes and schools throughout the country.
Made up of more than 2,500 professional musiciansthe organization has members from orchestras such as the stable of the Colon Theaterthe Buenos Aires Philharmonic and the National Polyphonic Choir, in addition to numerous groups and orchestras from the interior of the country.
“There are many people who, due to their physical or mental condition, cannot attend a concert or recital,” he explained. Alejandro Lagoone of the heads of the NGO. “We bring music to the place where they are. Thanks to the award that Teva gave us last year, we were able to tour Chubut and Río Negro, regions we had never visited before.”
for the doctor Alejandro NieponiceHead of the Favaloro Foundation’s Esophagus Service and bandoneon player, just as music results from a balanced composition between melody and harmony, medicine cannot only be based on the use of increasingly innovative technologies thanks to artificial intelligence, because without empathy and close doctor-patient treatment it is impossible to achieve the long-awaited therapeutic effect. Thus, during the award ceremony, he highlighted the need for humanization of health from the practice of medicine.
In addition to its impact in Argentina, Música para el Alma has a presence in 9 countries in Latin Americaas well as in Spain, Italy and Israeland operates exclusively with volunteer work.
For Teva, recognition of initiatives like this is part of its effort to promote the humanization of health. According to Vanina Faillace, company representative, “the future of health It seems increasingly linked to innovation, the advancement of technologies and artificial intelligence. However, humanizing people’s care is the most important challenge of health innovation”.
