Overview
- The new Àrea d'Oncolohematologia Infantil i Adolescent was officially inaugurated by Catalan president Salvador Illa on Monday, June 1.
- Three private foundations fully financed the project with €7.4 million in funding from Fundación Aladina, Fundació Albert Bosch and Fundación Small.
- The remodel doubled the unit to about 2,646 square metres and provides 12 individual rooms for children, eight for adolescents and nine protected transplant rooms conceived as small apartments.
- The area has been in clinical use since October and hospital managers say it has carried out 72 hematopoietic transplants, treated more than 400 patients and houses a clinical‑trials unit equipped for roughly 60 active trials including CAR‑T and gene therapies.
- The redesign was co‑created with patients, families and staff to replace old isolation 'bubble' chambers with family‑friendly rooms, terraces, age‑segmented play areas, a rehab space, a hospital classroom and a psycho‑oncology office to improve daily life during long treatments and speed emotional recovery.