The doctors of the Medical School and the University Clinical Hospital in Mostar have showed that they are not only good doctors, but excellent actors as well. On October 25, 2009, in front of a full house at the city theater Komedija, they put on a performance of Molière’s comedy “The Imaginary Invalid”. All of the proceeds from the ticket sales went to the Ana Rukavina Foundation, which was just another confirmation of the nobility and humanity of those in the medical profession.
>>7th Zagreb Top Ten Karate Fest to benefit the Foundation
For the third year in a row, the organizers of the Top Ten Karate Fest will donate the ticket proceeds to the Ana Rukavina Foundation.
>>“Ana Rukvina” Symposium
The 1st ANA RUKAVINA SYMPOSIUM dedicated to the activities connected to the operations of the Croatian Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors and the Ana Rukavina Cord Blood Bank will be held within the framework of the symposium “5th Transfusion Days” which is being organized by the Department of Transfusion Medicine and Stem Cell Therapy at University Hospital Center Zagreb and the Croatian Society for Hematology and Transfusion Medicine of the Croatian Medical Association!
>>Sisak – 51 new donors join the Registry
At an action in sisak to jin the Registry, the names of 51 new bone marrow donors were added!
>>Another bone marrow donation from the Croatian Registry for a leukemia patient
In a short period of time, another stem cell donation from the Croatian Registry of voluntary bone marrow donors has been used for a patient suffering from leukemia.
>>Ana Rukavina Foundation marks World Lymphoma Awareness Day – 60 new donors join the Registry
On the occasion of World Lymphoma Awareness Day, the Ana Rukavina Foundation and the Croatian Leukemia and Lymphoma Association organized a number of activities on Cvjetni Trg in order to raise public awareness of this difficult, and unfortunately, not so uncommon disease. Educational presentations for the citizens, which were held in the Cultural Information Center, were given by some of the most qualified experts in the field of hematology in Croatia: Professor Igor Auer, MD, PhD, from the University Hospital Center Zagreb, and Professor Slobodanka Ostojić, MD, PhD, and Ljiljana Pomper, BSN, from the Merkur University Hospital.
>>World Lymphoma Awareness Day – September 15th
On the occasion of World Lymphoma Awareness Day on September 15th, the Ana Rukavina Foundation and the Croatian Leukemia and Lymphoma Association have organized a number of activities on Cvjetni Trg in order to raise public awareness of this difficult, and unfortunately, not so uncommon disease.
>>Split: 105 new donors join the Registry
At the action to join the Registry of voluntary bone marrow donors, which was held on August 26th in Split at Prokurative, there were 105 new potential donors of bone marrow and stem cells that gave blood samples to be tissue typed.
>>“When little hands get together, there is no stopping Split”
Today in Split, starting at 6 PM, is the action for the Ana Rukavina Foundation “When little hands get together, there is no stopping Split”. It is being organized by the Association of Secondary Schools in Split and the European Youth Parliament of the City of Split.
>>473 new blood samples have been tissue typed!
Since July 15th, HLA (Human leukocyte antigen) tissue typing of loci A, B and DRB1 has been completed on 473 new blood samples of potential bone marrow and stem cell donors.
The National Registry now lists 12,575 donors that are available to search for matches with patients that are in need of bone marrow transplants.