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On Monday, May 15, the twentieth anniversary of the constitution of the Multiple Sclerosis Association of Cartagena and its Region (EMACC) is celebrated, and as a result, Cartagena City Council has organized a series of events with the association that Have included the reading of a manifesto in front of the Palace Hall, which has called for the implementation of a Day Center for patients with this disease.
The event was attended by the mayor of Cartagena, José López, and the Councilor for Social Services, Carmen Martín.
The mayor said that, despite the advances in science, "there are still many diseases for which there is no effective response", including Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and has emphasized the need Of "putting time, will and means to combat it".
He stressed that this neurological disease affects people between 20 and 45 years, mainly among women, and although diagnostic methods are improving, "it is still unknown what causes it."
Some 47,000 people in Spain suffer from this disease, of which 375 are in Cartagena.
Thus, in the last two decades, the diagnosed cases have doubled and, as López has pointed out, "we must progress in improving the quality of life of patients parallel to the investigation", while wishing that someday , Such research may find "an effective cure against this disease with devastating effects".
The president of EMACC, Mª Ángeles Ros, stressed on the day that marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the association that directs that its objective is to help people suffering from MS in Cartagena and their families, "Whether or not they are partners," offering physiotherapeutic rehabilitation or psychological support, while "trying to teach them how to live each day as a normal person."
In this way, it has demanded the need for a Day Center that allows the association "to welcome those people who are disabled, to give them a reason for life and company, and to volunteer to help families" and has assured that, if Finally arrives this Day Center to Cartagena, "we will extend it to the whole Region, because it is necessary".
Later, Ros said, he would expand this project to build a specific residence for MS affected, although "we have to start at the beginning," he underlined.
"Our desire is that there are not people with Multiple Sclerosis almost abandoned in a hospital," said the president of the EMACC, while he reminded two patients "hospitalized, without resources and without anyone to visit them", so That "we want to welcome them and treat them".
In turn, the representative of the Multiple Sclerosis Association of Spain (EME) and president of the Multiple Sclerosis Association of Area III of Health (AEMA III), Francisco José del Vas, wanted to congratulate the association for its 20 years And has assured that "many years of work by Multiple Sclerosis patients," which has described as "very hard, because sometimes we do not realize the needs of an association."
He has claimed the importance of the associations, since "we do not take the projects of the top hat but the users themselves demand them."
In turn, has ensured that "we will move forward together to achieve the claims that are being made," such as granting a 33% disability.
On the other hand, he has agreed with M. Angeles Ros on the need for a Day Center to care for patients and has demanded continued comprehensive rehabilitation because, after a time without support from a physiotherapist, "all the Work and effort. "
At the end of the ceremony, the president of the EMACC has delivered to the mayor of Cartagena the manifesto that has been read in the Plaza del Palacio Consistorial this Monday after the press conference on the occasion of this twentieth anniversary of the Association of Sclerosis Multiple of Cartagena and its Shire.
Other members of the municipal corporation, such as Antonio Calderón, Manuel Padín, Pilar Marcos, Florentina García, Esperanza Nieto, Carolina Palazón and Ana Rama also attended the reading of the manifesto.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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