We Beg to Save Our Son! 2nd stage.

Thanks to your help the project “We Beg to Save Our Son” raised more than half of the amount of money required to pay for treatment of David Benidze in Germany. The boy will be treated in a different hospital than it was originally planned. The price of treatment is even lower but the timing of payment has changed. And now we have little time to raise the necessary amount as on October 20th David should go to Germany. Today we start the second stage of fundraising, so that the little boy had a chance to recover!

They are an ordinary family living in a small village in Crimea. David’s mother worked as a shop assistant, the father had worked as a KAMAZ driver for 20 years. They dreamt of having two children and their dream came true: Davis was born and a year later a beautiful daughter. When their son fell ill the family members had to live 900 kilometers from each other: the mother stayed with the son at the hospital in Kyiv and the father remained with a 4-year-old daughter in Crimea. Unfortunately, often the trouble does not come alone. This year David’s father had a stroke and now he cannot help in treating his son because he is disabled.

From December 2011 to April 2013 David was treated at the National Institute of Cancer (16 cycles of chemotherapy, 1 operation, stem cell transplantation, radiotherapy).

After 3 months during a regular check-up metastases in the left humerus were detected. The doctors of the Institute of Cancer prescribed 4 cycles of high dose chemotherapy. For now he completed all of them. David underwent all the procedures available in Ukraine for his diagnosis.

The leading pediatric oncologist of Ukraine Grygorii Klymniuk gave the certificate to David’s parents confirming the necessity to continue treatment in foreign clinics in Austria or Germany where high-tech sophisticated methods are used are which are not available in Ukraine.

The parents referred to clinics in Germany which after reviewing their medical history agreed to take the child for treatment. The doctors of the Clinic Würzburg gave good chances of recovery, that’s why it was the first choice. Still the negotiations with the German clinic specializing in this disease and eventually the parents’ dream came true!

A well-knownhospital in the world, Olgahospital in Stuttgart, agreed to accept David for treatment!
The Olgahospital is the Academic Hospital of the University of Tübingen, part of a conglomerate of their hospitals, and is one of the leading pediatric hospitals in Germany. The Professor Schilling, who is the author of 24 works about neuroblastoma works at the hospital.

After long negotiations Olgahospital Stuttgart sent their invoice for David’s treatment.
The cost of treatment will be 165 000 euros which is 45 000 less than offered by Würzburg.
But the hospital does not agree to take a deposit and therefore the entire amount for treatment should be paid to the account of the clinic before the boy’s hospitalization.

The German doctors accept the child for treatment and give positive prognosis if all the stages of treatment will be completed. In Ukraine such treatment is not available.
The mother appeals to all the Ukrainian people: “We beg to save our son!!!”

Name: David Benidze, 5 years old

Location: Crimea, Nyzhnohirskyi raion, village Piny

Diagnosis: Neuroblastoma of the retroperitoneal space, Stage 4