On the 9th April 2011 the „Do not Delay!“ bus, which brings pink hope through the whole Lithuania visited Birstonas – the town of the origin of health. On 7-10 April there were a lot of events dedicated to celebrate the International Health Day. Town citizens and its guests could participate in various contests and exercises to strengthen their health. In the Health Care Centre free medical examinations were carried out.

On 9th April 2011 celebrating International Health Day, in Birstonas Primary health care centre, the best Lithuanian oncologists and “Do Not Delay” project doctors will be checking health and consulting all women from Birstonas absolutely free of charge. International Health Day is celebrated annually on the 7th April, it is initiated by World Health Organization (WHO).

A remarkable pensioner who has beaten cancer FIVE times and even been read the  last rites has defied all expectation to reach her 100th birthday.

Ellen McDonald is still going strong despite enduring several operations - including one in 1963 where a priest was called as doctors thought she wouldn't survive.

Her health issues began when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in  the early 1950s and she had to have a double mastectomy.

She was diagnosed with cancer of the gall bladder a few years later - but she beat the disease by having her gall bladder removed as well as a further operation after the  cancer spread.  

           The New Year for the health awareness project Do Not Delay, which counts eight years since it has been founded, is a symbolic beginning for setting new goals. This Project is greeting this year with a slogan “Everyone can change the world by doing something kind”. Project encourages to start from little things – help people who are in need of help and attention, make their life easier: fold a little origami crane and give it to a sick person, wishing him good health, plant some roses in a balcony and let our towns bloom, present a book with a positive content for a library in a hospital or in a village.

In October – breast cancer awareness month – the “Do not Delay!”  healthcare project presented a book “99,9 Percent of Hope”. The book is dedicated to women suffering from breast cancer and to their relatives. Whereas a symbol of the project, the “Pink ribbon” bus, made more than a thousand scans for women in the country. Also in October 5 international companies working in Lithuania decided to follow the practice known in the whole world and marked their products with a Pink Ribbon in order to support the project and to promote solidarity in a fight against breast cancer.