Portal de Cartagena
www.portaldecartagena.com
Cartagena joins this weekend to the celebration of World Ostomized Day.
The ostomized patients are patients who have suffered an ostomy, an artificial outlet that a surgeon practices in the abdominal wall because of various diagnoses to facilitate the release of waste products from the body outside.
In Spain, there are more than 125,000 ostomized people and a greater number of these interventions are performed every day.
Therefore, this world day has two main objectives.
On the one hand, contribute to integrate all those affected by this operation;
and, on the other hand, sensitize society to the barriers that these patients have to overcome daily.
The port city has organized various activities from Friday 4 to Saturday 5 October to bring this surgical procedure closer to society.
The events are organized by the Association of Ostomized of Cartagena, in collaboration with the City of Cartagena, the English Court, the Port Authority, the Museum of the Roman Theater, among others.
The Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena hosts this Friday, October 4, an informative day that will begin at 9:30 am with the opening of the act by the Minister of Health of the Region of Murcia, Manuel Villegas.
The vice mayor, Noelia Arroyo, the second deputy mayor, Manuel Padín and the Councilor for Social Services, Mercedes García, will attend.
In addition, the conference "Ostomized, an increasingly visible reality" will be held, by Dr. Milagros Carrasco Prats, General surgeon and digestive system of the Reina Sofía Hospital in Murcia, a member of the peritoneal oncology and coloproctology units.
After coffee, the talk “Ostomies and abdominal rehabilitation will take place at 11:30 am.
The importance of an active life â€, by Esther López, Marketing Director of the Convatec Ostomy line and at 12:30 pm, the round table moderated by José M. Yagüe Sánchez, director of Nursing at HGUSMR and in the Juan Moreno Avilés, head of the CHC Area II Urology Department, Milagros Carrasco Prats, Ana Lage Laredo, surgeon of the Coloproctology Unit of Area II, Álvaro Caballero González, Urology nurse, Benito García, Stomach therapist, Juan Saura Hernández, a ostomy patient and Juan Saura Valero, relative of the patient.
After the lunch break, at 5 pm, Maite González, spokesperson for the Gesto Project, will talk about the Gesture Project, the Ostomized Patient Guide and the Ostomy Humanization Project.
Also, at 5:45 p.m., there will be a talk to be determined.
On Saturday, October 5, the solidarity march through the city will take place in order to publicize the presence of the Ostomized Association.
The march will leave at 12 noon, from the Plaza del Corte Inglés and will end at the esplanade of the Port, where it is planned to share a giant paella among the participants of the march and enjoy a music concert by one of the groups city ​​pointers.
Registration for the march is 6 euros (backpack, cap, paella plate and a raffle ticket) and can be made at the Rosell and St. Lucia Hospitals and the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country.
It should be noted that on Friday and Saturday the fountain of Isaac Peral's submarine will be lit green, located at the crossroads of the Paseo de Alfonso XIII with Ripoll Capitanes Street.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies