Sant Joan de Deu Barcelona . Children’s Hospital is leading the way in both children’s and maternal health care.
We know that you want only the best for your children. That’s why Gate To Wellness started a partnership with the private, non-profit Children's Hospital, Sant Joan de Deu in Barcelona, Spain.
Since 1867, this Hospital has been dedicated to comprehensive care for women, children and adolescents, and has become one of the most important specialised paediatric centres in Europe.
Experts in the health of children and pregnant women
Due to high success rates, the hospital is placed among the best in the world in high-complexity diseases in children and pregnant women.
More than 400 professionals of all paediatric specialties, trained at the world's best hospitals, will work hard for your child’s wellbeing.
The latest research
SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital treats with the latest scientific advances and develops new, more effective and less aggressive therapies.
We would like to highlight 3 important units:
- Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Pediatric Oncology
- Congenital heart diseases
Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
In the Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation unit those children who require a bone marrow, umbilical cord blood or peripheral blood transplant are attended.
Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a key treatment in curing many children who present with:
- Haematological and oncological illnesses
- Genetic illnesses: immunodeficiencies, hemopathies and metabolopatias
Pediatric Oncology
SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital is specialised in treating all kinds of child cancers: neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, musculoskeletal tumours (sarcomas), brain tumours, including brain stem gliomas, histiocytosis, kidney tumours, leukaemia and lymphomas.
Its professionals also treat rare haematological illnesses: hemoglobinopathies, congenital and acquired spinal cord disorders (erythroblastopenia, leukopenia, Fanconi anaemia, Blackfan-Diamond anaemia, etc.), congenital and acquired neutropenias, acute immune thrombocytopenia other thrombocytopenia, coagulation factor deficiency, haemolytic anaemias.
The SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital receives close to 200 new cases of child cancer every year.
The SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital's Oncology and haematology department is the national reference centre for the treatment of developmental cancer and an international reference centre for determined types of tumours.
This center has been pioneer in Europe in the application
of intra-arterial chemotherapy to patients suffering from retinoblastoma to prevent losing the eye.
Also, it was the first in Europe to useanti-GD2 immunotherapy for the treatment of high risk neuroblastoma and increase survival by 20%.
Recently started an international clinical trial for patients suffering from diffuse brain stem glioma, a cancer which is currently incurable
Congenital heart diseases
The Heart Area comprises the Cardiology department and the Heart surgery department.
The hospital’s professionals diagnose and treat babies, children and adolescents who present with congenital structural heart defects, arrhythmias and cardiac electric conduction disorders, and congenital or acquired heart pathologies.
Known to be a one of the departments with the lowest surgical mortality rates in Europe, as well as a very low re-operation rate, the best possible treatment will be offered with the standards of the best hospitals in the world.
These are a few in various specialty departments. Feel free to call us for any questions or enquiries
Gate To Wellness is your partner in Qatar to arrange all documents, facilitate all the logistics, communicate with the hospital abroad and organise any additional services.
We are looking forward to assist you and your family on the path to a better health.
