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Cartagena joins this weekend to the celebration of World Ostomized Day, and taking advantage of the occasion, the Councilor for Social Services, Mercedes Garcia, has advanced that since the municipal government have been launched "four toilets adapted for people who they suffer from this illness, in public buildings of great affluence, such as the Roman Theater Museum itself, the administrative building of San Miguel, the Milagrosa and the Ramón Alonso Luzzy cultural center. "
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 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 auditorium of the Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena has hosted this Friday, October 4, an informative day, attended by the second deputy mayor, Manuel Padín, the Councilor for Social Services, Mercedes Garcia, the president of the Association of Ostomized of Cartagena, Clara Heredia and the manager of Area II of Health, José Sedes.
The person in charge of opening the conference was the president of the ostomized association, Clara Heredia, who thanked the efforts of the City Council of Cartagena and Area II of Health so that the group has greater facilities in their day to day.
One of the measures highlighted by Heredia has been "the adaptation of toilets for the use of ostomized patients".
For his part, the Councilor for Health, Manuel Padín, highlighted the work coordinated by the association, Area II and the City Council.
The mayor has indicated that the work continues to facilitate that the group also has "access and priority in the toilets of shops, bars and restaurants in the municipality."
In his speech, the manager of Area II of Health, José Sedes, has indicated that a collaboration agreement will be signed shortly with the association to improve his day-to-day work, and has indicated that "the Hospital of Santa Lucia will also count with adapted toilets like those already in Rosell ".
In addition, the conference "Ostomized, an increasingly visible reality" has taken place, by Dr. Milagros Carrasco Prats, General and digestive surgeon at the Reina Sofía Hospital in Murcia, member of the peritoneal coloproctology and cancer surgery units .
After the coffee, the talk “Ostomies and abdominal rehabilitation.
The importance of an active life â€, by Esther López, Marketing Director of the Convatec Ostomy line and the round table moderated by José M. Yagüe Sánchez, Nursing Director of the HGUSMR and in which Juan Moreno Avilés will participate, Head of the CHC Area II Urology Service, Milagros Carrasco Prats, Ana Lage Laredo, surgeon of the Area II Coloproctology Unit, Álvaro Caballero González, Urology Nurse, Benito García, Stomach Therapist Nurse, Juan Saura Hernández, an 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.
In addition, from the Coloplast Space there will be another talk.
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
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