Game as a Means to Fight an Ailment

Saby Charitable Foundation has been carrying on activity under its Medical Project for 10 years already, which is one of the first and long-term projects. From 2002, when the project was launched, much has changed in our country. Budget financing of the medical industry has significantly increased, state programs covering all spheres of health care have been developed. But the role of private sector capital, including charitable organizations, should not be underestimated. Foundations of high mobility can be involved to solve a definite problem, when a prompt response, hard to be fulfilled in conditions of public procurement, is required.

Within the frame of the Medical Project, Saby Foundation, among other objectives, renders assistance to medical and preventive treatment institutions to improve hospital conditions for patients, first of all, for children. To facilitate the stay of children in hospitals during a period of treatment and rehabilitation, game rooms are equipped especially for them.

A few days ago, little patients of National Scientific Cardiac Surgery Center JSC of the National Medical Holding Company of Astana city were donated by the Foundation with a domestic playground, where children can swing and slide down, draw and count, play in a ‘dry swimming pool’ and build from plastic bricks almost real buildings and equip, together with their mothers, private space in the garden house.

Time spent in games distracts children from their disease giving them new energy to fight the ailment.