{"id":504,"date":"2025-11-26T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/?p=504"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:33:44","slug":"hesed-launched-free-blood-tests-for-children-the-results-20-of-them-have-anemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/hesed-launched-free-blood-tests-for-children-the-results-20-of-them-have-anemia\/","title":{"rendered":"HESED launched free blood tests for children. The results: 20%  of them have anemia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-53123a7d8a27c4b28936ebe45512e290\"><strong>Free medical tests for children aged 0 to 6 years from vulnerable families<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The morning of September 11, 2025 began with a children\u2019s cry at the medical office of the MID Center Suhodolska, where we started conducting free medical tests for children aged 0 to 6 years from vulnerable families living in poor living conditions or in a situation of homelessness in the Fakulteta neighborhood. The activity is happening thanks to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/solace-cee.eu\/\">SOLACE-CEE<\/a>\u00a0project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hesed.bg\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250911_090047-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11015\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-a63b94ca2e8ecf6aa81adfeb9373349a\"><strong>The tests include indicators of key importance for monitoring the general health and nutritional status of children:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Complete blood count (CBC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Iron binding capacity (IBC \u2013 an indicator of the amount of iron that the blood can carry, which most accurately characterizes the metabolism of the microelement in the body)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Calcium (Ca) and Iron (Fe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hesed.bg\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250911_100705-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11016\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Blood sampling continued until the end of October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\"><strong>The results of the blood tests showed that 6 out of a total of 30 children tested had anemia. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means 20% of tested children are anemic. The results were processed by the project pediatrician, Dr. Krasimira Baynova, after which the parents received treatment guidelines and individual support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251118_145124-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251118_145124-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251118_145124-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251118_145124-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251118_145124-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251118_145124-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative is proof that when social and health care go hand in hand, the complex needs of children from vulnerable families living in unsafe or inadequate homes do not go unanswered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free medical tests for children aged 0 to 6 years from vulnerable families The morning of September 11, 2025 began with a children\u2019s cry at the medical office of the MID Center Suhodolska, where we started conducting free medical tests for children aged 0 to 6 years from vulnerable families living in poor living conditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hesed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solacespotlight.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}