Local non-profit Sus Inima Association inaugurated a new Oncology Support Centre in Bucharest on June 14. It is the NGO’s third such location in Romania after the ones opened in Sibiu and Timișoara.

These centres support people with an oncological diagnosis by providing free oncology navigators, one-to-one psychotherapy, second opinion, art therapy, social workers, opportunities to socialize, support group, and nutrition plans.

“We’re very proud to announce the opening of the new Oncological Support Center in Bucharest, and we are grateful to be able to offer support, through our specialists, to people affected by cancer in the capital, two and a half years after the opening of the Sus Inima House in Bucharest, which offers free accommodation to people who come for radiotherapy and chemotherapy from neighbouring counties,” said Carmen Chindriș, Executive Director of Sus Inima Association.

The new Oncology Support Centre in Bucharest is four minutes from the Sus Inima House in Bucharest, inaugurated in November 2020. The first Sus Inima House was inaugurated in Sibiu in 2019.

The Sus Inima Association, founded in 2015 in Sibiu by Carmen Chindriș, Lu Knobloch and Father Constantin Necula, means SIO (Sus Inima Oncology) and SIPRI (Sus Inima Programme for Refugee Integration). Its work can be supported by one-time donations (payment by card or Paypal), recurring donations (payment by card or Paypal), direct sponsorship, redirection of 3.5% of income tax, or donations of EUR 2 per month by SMS to 8844 with the text SPRIJIN. Details are available here.

In 2022, the Sus Inima Association offered, in the two Sus Inima Houses and the Oncology Support Centre in Sibiu, 4,385 nights of accommodation to people with oncological diagnosis undergoing radiotherapy; 3,212 hot meals; 1,429 one-to-one therapy sessions; 64 support groups; 24 art therapy sessions; 30 nutrition plans; and 48 second opinion cases.

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(Photo source: Sus Inima Association)