- This second delivery made by the Foundation in favor of minors who receive oncological treatment is for INEN.
Wiese Foundation continues to contribute to the health sector through donations of virtual reality equipments, whose objective is to diminish the feeling of discomfort and stress in minor patients who receive oncological treatment through procedures that are usually complex and painful. This time, the delivery was made at the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN), located in the Lima region.
The five equipments donated to INEN have a technology crafted by FeelsGood, a social company with a presence in several countries in Latin America. This company has developed a software in Peru that, according to its users and a study currently being conducted in Mexico, reduces the feeling of pain during invasive treatments.
“The use of this software is not complicated. It is simple in every sense and it helps not only to make oncological treatments less painful, but also quicker and more dynamic. It offers an experience that even makes the minor patient ask for the product”, indicated Olly Fischman, a representative from FeelsGood.
As its developers point out, to date, more than 10,000 painless procedures have been performed using the FeelsGood visors, which shows the efficiency and the benefit that the product gives to the patient. Moreover, these visors have a monitoring system that allows to verify that the equipment is being used correctly by the healthcare personnel.
Role of Wiese Foundation in alliance with healthcare
Wiese Foundation invested almost S/. 66,400 in the purchase of virtual reality equipments, a donation whose objective is in line with the main purpose of the organization, which is to strive so that better citizens may forge the Peru of the future.
Furthermore, since March of 2021, Wiese Foundation has invested more than US$ 500,000 in various actions aimed at contributing to handling the sanitary crisis and its grave consequences. Among these actions, are the acquisition and timely delivery of medical equipments and PPEs for the EsSalud and Minsa networks, addressing specifically the needs of the medical personnel in various regions of the country; as well as the direct execution of COVID-19 non-complex cases screening and care campaigns among vulnerable populations.
About the equipments
The visors donated by the Wiese Foundation are virtual reality devices whose software, developed in Peru, allow to reduce the feeling of pain during the treatment of children with cancer, and of minors who must undergo invasive medical procedures.
This technology was developed by FeelsGood, a startup company focused on the healthcare sector, which uses VR technology, augmented reality and artificial intelligence for its technological developments. The equipments in question are important, as they fulfil an important function: transporting the oncological pediatric patient, through psychology, imagination, music and chromotherapy techniques, into a more favorable and friendly virtual reality, thus diminishing, inasmuch as possible, the feeling of pain during their treatments.
This is not the first delivery made by FeelsGood in alliance with Wiese Foundation. Find more details about the first donation made by the organization at the Guillermo Almenara National Hospital at this link: https://bit.ly/30oNJy7.
