How Madrid's public hospitals turned a daily injection into an adventure for children

Sticking to a daily injection is hard for a child: fear of needles, uncertainty about preparing and giving the dose at home, and the sheer weight of a routine that lasts months or years. It's a well-documented problem — the World Health Organization estimates only about half of people with chronic illness take their medication as prescribed, and injection anxiety is a known reason children miss doses. Helping a child face it calmly isn't a nice extra — it's part of the therapy.

Fharmaverso is used today at three Madrid public hospitals — Getafe, Fuenlabrada and Ramón y Cajal — with the children's hospital Niño Jesús set to join, and has accompanied around fifty children in its pilot. Nothing about it is exclusive to growth hormone: the team sees a clear path to childhood diabetes and any treatment given under the skin. As Teresa Molina, head of pharmacy at Hospital de Getafe, puts it:

Any condition that currently relies on subcutaneous hospital medication could benefit from a tool like this.

Fharmaverso turns something that frightens a child into a story where they're the hero, not the patient. If you recognise your own situation here, let's talk about how it could work for you.