Mariah is one of the 101,873 children and adolescents whose lives were transformed by Pequeno Príncipe Hospital in 2025. Diagnosed as a baby with a congenital heart condition, she underwent surgeries, had a pacemaker, and in 2025 received at the Hospital an indication for a heart transplant. The procedure was successfully performed, allowing Mariah to return to something essential for any child: playing, running, and living childhood with more freedom. Her story translates, in one concrete life, the magnitude of the impact generated daily by the institution.

The number of services delivered in 2025 reflects the scale of Pequeno Príncipe Hospital’s work in a context of underfunding of pediatric care within Brazilian Public Health System (known as SUS) and the concentration of care in only a few specialized centers in Brazil.

More than volume, this figure reveals the capacity of an institution that, every day, sustains a large-scale operation to ensure access to treatments that are often not available in other regions of the country. Families from different states find at Pequeno Príncipe not only medical care, but a structure prepared to handle the most complex pediatric cases. Learn more about this subject in the main article of the 2026 February edition of Pequeno Príncipe News.

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• The year begins with achievements that reinforce excellence in teaching and research at Pequeno Príncipe. The two recognitions are the achievement of a Capes (Brazilian Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement) score of 6 for the Postgraduate Program in Biotechnology Applied to Child and Adolescent Health (on a scale up to 7) and the standout performance of medical students at Pequeno Príncipe College, who earned a score of 5 on the National Exam for the Assessment of Medical Training (Enamed, in Portuguese).
• Social investment accounted for 47% of the funds allocated to projects at Pequeno Príncipe. In the last year, the Hospital carried out a strategic set of construction projects and structural upgrades that strengthened the quality of care provided to children and adolescents from all over Brazil. Social investment underscores the fundamental role of philanthropy and institutional partnerships in enhancing the quality of care and ensuring structures increasingly suited to highly complex pediatric medicine.