Pediatric Oncology
FAP Hospital
Instituto Alok supports Fundação Assistencial da Paraíba (FAP), known as FAP Hospital, at the beginning of its activities in the childhood cancer scenario. It is a daring, bold and costly task. The funds are intended to be added to the fundraising campaign for setting up clinics, chemotherapy infusion center and ward, in the recommended models to accommodate the sick.
INCA (Brazilian National Cancer Institute) studies show that cancer is the disease that kills most children and adolescents in Brazil and the second leading cause of death in this age group, surpassed only by accidents and violent deaths. Pediatric Oncology in Brazil shows few advances in the results obtained in relation to developed countries, being also surpassed by Latin American countries such
as Chile, Argentina and Mexico.
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About the FAP Hospital
Inaugurated in 1965 in Campina Grande (PB), to be a general service unit for the public, it was soon incorporated into the medical teaching faculty of that city, becoming known as FAP School Hospital.
Having started in a timid and precarious way, the structure was gaining strength and in 1992, it inaugurated its Radiotherapy service. Increasingly, the institution attracted the attention of professionals with the mission of treating cancer. After decades of work, he decided to expand his activities to the world of oncology. Thus, on November 27, 2000, the Ulisses Pinto Cancerology Center (CCUP) was inaugurated.
The city of Campina Grande is the second largest municipality in the state of Paraíba, with a fixed population of 411,807 inhabitants (IBGE 2020), being a technological and health center, very well positioned geographically, where the FAP Hospital is a reference for 148 municipalities. with regard
to cancer care and partially serving other states, such as Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte.
