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The mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, and the Councillor for Sports, Ricardo Segado, received on Tuesday 25 October at 13.30 hours at the Palace Hall, visit Juanjo Sanmartin challenge participant Cartagena Madrid Rocio Salas Non Stop .
A sporting event that appears with the aim to raise awareness and raise funds Salas paraRocío a cartagenera girl with brain damage.
This challenge, to be held in March 2017, is to cover the distance in 24 hours between km 0 of Madrid and Cartagena with a road bike.
The athlete Juanjo Sanmartin, will accompany a van during the tour, to drink and eat when necessary or assist with any mishap.
Rocio Salas, born prematurely by Caesarean section in 2004, suffered a sepsis in the incubator, with multiple complications that caused severe neurological and physical consequences.
Six months later, her parents discovered that she was blind, being the youngest affiliate ONCE Cartagena.
To treat his blindness, after two failed interventions, Rocio need to go to an ophthalmologist renowned in Barcelona.
You also need to go to an orthopedist, not to lose the mobility of a leg and be in a wheelchair;
for this purpose he went to the office of Dr. Ripoll in Murcia, he decided he was not in muscular condition to be operated successfully and neurophysiology prescribed sessions.
Neither these nor the operation itself sessions are covered by Social Security.
Funding for the experimental treatment Dew also collect stem cells, which will no longer be needed in China as scheduled, but may be submitted to him in the region of Murcia with a cost de30.000 euros, 9,000 missing euros for Rocio can receive it.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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