Easing Pain For Thousands

A My Weekly-funded dermatology clinic continues to offer life-changing treatment

- Sally Rodger, Sally Wood Lamont, Mary's Meals

We met Dr Maria Crisan when she came to a hospital near us for specialist training, sponsored by the Rotary Club.

Under the dictator Ceausescu’s rule, doctors had to do a range of work and could not specialise but this had changed and Dr Crisan had decided to concentrate on dermatology, a branch of medicine which did not receive a great deal of attention in Romania at the time.

Later, we helped her open up a clinic with a donation of phototherapy lamps and other equipment. In the years that followed we helped with running costs, so patients who could not afford to pay could get treatment too.

Carrying On The Work

“Skin conditions may seem unimportant in comparison to the serious problems we face in life, such as life-threatening diseases, poverty or terrible living conditions,” says professor Maria Crisan of the Dermatology Clinic in Cluj, Romania. But she continues by arguing that only people who have never had to face a skin disease would agree with this.