Hello, dear employees of the Foundation! I am writing to you the Patosca family living in Moldova (ATU Gagauzia), mun. Ceadir-Lunga. Our family has 9 children (all our own), one of whom needs urgent and expensive surgical intervention, because about two months ago our daughter Irina (7 years old) was diagnosed with moyamoya disease. This disease is very rare, so doctors for a long time could not identify the cause of seizures in the child.

These attacks are manifested as follows: the child suddenly fails both legs, and she can not feel it in advance to protect herself from a sudden fall and loses consciousness. If the child is not operated on soon, the probability of a stroke is very high, there can be many of them, the consequences of a stroke everyone knows, and in the worst case - it is fatal outcome ....

In our country this disease is extremely rare, experience and knowledge of this disease doctors do not have, many have not even heard of this disease. But after searching the Internet for information on this disease, we found a narrow-profile children's moyamoya center in Zurich, Switzerland. This is the only moyamoya center in Europe, where they treat children diagnosed with moyamoya and conduct scientific activities and research in this area. We sent there the results of the research that we had done in Moldova and got an answer from Prof. Kahn that yes, we are talking about moyamoya disease and that we need neurosurgery / surgery on the vessels of the brain. How many vessels require bypass surgery, which ones to operate first - all this will be decided after a complete examination. Our girl can be saved!

But the treatment is very expensive, for our family it is just not an affordable amount. We ask you to help us in collecting money to save our daughter's life before it is too late!

Thank you all very much for your understanding and earlier we thank you. God bless you!