Strategic Partnerships

Having as a goal the creation of a future where man and nature will coexist in harmony, a strategically important collaboration is inaugurated today between IASO Group’s integrated Corporate Responsibility program "By Your Side" and the environmental organization WWF Greece. The two bodies join their forces, having as a common vision a living planet that will guarantee health, prosperity and safety for its citizens today, but also for future generations.

The main purpose of this collaboration is the development of an active group of families having their children and their future as a key point of reference, which are informed, sensitized about modern environmental challenges and take action, by adopting a more responsible lifestyle. In this "journey" they will not be alone. WWF Greece will be by their side, substantially supporting them, answering all their questions and offering them practical and sustainable solutions. Respectively, IASO Group will stand by these families and WWF, actively supporting their efforts to raise an environmental awareness in the next generations of citizens, which will be able to contribute to the restoration of the environmental balance and ultimately to the creation of a healthy planet.

In this rapidly changing world, no one can remain idle. In this context, the two organizations will work closely together in the coming months, laying the foundations for the development of an active family community, which will claim a better and more sustainable world for our children, with the substantial support of IASO Group and WWF.

Christina Tampourea, IASO Group’s CCO, stated: "These days, biodiversity on our planet is threatened and the causes are known. Without the natural world we cannot survive and it is a mistake to take it for granted. In this endeavor, we are immensely happy and proud of this collaboration. In the journey that we make to ensure a better future for our planet, it is important to find such strong partners, whom we share the same vision with. This partnership with WWF, one of the largest organizations in the world regarding environmental protection, will give us even more strength and energy, so that we, as a Health Group, can help to create a better and more sustainable world for our children. We all want the absolute best for them and we must educate them to respect the environment, their fellow human beings, the society."

Mr. Konstantinos Liarikos, Head of Development at WWF Greece, stated: “Protecting the environment has never been an individual endeavor. It requires cooperation and collectivity between individuals and organizations that share the same concerns and the same sensitivities regarding our home, the Earth. The concept of collaboration has always been at the heart of WWF Greece’s philosophy, throughout its thirty-year course. This is the kind of collaboration which starts today with IASO Group and through which the first foundations will be laid, in order for parents who bring a new life into the world, to be able to actively contribute to the shaping of a healthy and sustainable future for their children and also for the children all over the world. Because only if we are all in this together, united, can we pursue a better future for everyone."

In the context of commencing their official partnership, IASO and the “ORAMA ELPIDAS” Association inaugurated today the new Registration Center for Volunteer Bone Marrow Donors. At the same time, IASO, apart from the establishment of the new Registration Center for Volunteer Bone Marrow Donors, announced the expansion of its partnership with the “ORAMA ELPIDAS” Association by donating part of its proceeds from every childbirth taking place in IASO Clinic to support the Volunteer Bone Marrow Donor Bank, “ORAMA ELPIDAS”. Both these new initiatives are part of IASO Group’s Corporate Responsibility Program, “By Your Side”, through which IASO Group constantly supports vulnerable groups and significant actions undertaken by Associations and NGOs, by providing high-quality medical services.

The aim of the new Registration Center for Volunteer Bone Marrow Donors at IASO is to find bone marrow donors for the purpose of performing transplants in children and adults suffering from severe diseases, such as leukemia, aplastic anemia, thalassemia. In this way, these patients are offered hope in life, as transplant is the only treatment method for these diseases.

IASO’s Registration Center for Volunteer Bone Marrow Donors will significantly contribute in addressing the problem of finding donors. In Greece, the number of Volunteer Bone Marrow Donors is small, and so the main search for volunteers, in case there is no compatible donor within a patient’s family, is conducted in foreign countries. At the same time, public information and awareness on bone marrow transplant and, above all, the great importance of raising the number of volunteer donors in our country will be raised through the Center.