A choral recognition to the effort of the health sector

Honesty, sacrifice or humility are some of the words that flew over the halls of the Alfonso XIII hotel in Seville during the delivery ceremony of the III Health and Welfare Awards, organized by Grupo Joly with the collaboration Cofares and Teva.With those words, the award -winning persons or entities wanted to wrap up in the different interventions last Wednesday night, but also to take stock of a year of pandemic and pay tribute to health professionals who have been in the front line in the critical months."With the will to maintain with actions what people expressed in those applause that sounded every day at eight in the afternoon," explained the presenter of the act, the journalist Magdalena Trillo.In his speech, he highlighted the necessary work of local media and their service to society at such critical moments as those lived.

After the success of the first edition of these awards, and the impossibility of the pandemic to celebrate a delivery ceremony in the second call, the appointment last Wednesday became the meeting point of Andalusian health and the face -to -face reunion and the face -to -face reunionof many of its protagonists.

The president of the jury of these awards, Dr. Jesús Castiñeiras, president of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Seville, made a claim of the humility necessary in these times, “a virtue that must be required to the rulers and that must be quality for Health professionals".There he also framed the accept the criticism and advocated "associating the virtue of the humble with respect to citizens, someone who seeks their approval and someone who seeks their respect".In addition, he claimed a constructive spirit for the times that we have had to live and described several immediate challenges for the continuous improvement of Andalusian primary care.To do this, he advocated cooperation and stressed that "they are not times of sectarianism".

Victoria Herrera, Director of Business Development of Grupo Joly, before reading the minutes with the designation of the winners, explained that “despite this award, it includes three categories (pharmacy, research and health promotion) recognition today isExtendable to all of you, health professionals, pharmacists, doctors, nurses, researchers, managers, for having been on the front line, for everything we know that you have suffered and for all your sacrifice ”.

The second edition of the awards, designated, but not delivered last year, recognized the work of R&+pharmacies, the Association for Research and Help of Wolfram Syndrome and the Association accompanying our elders, Anumayores.

Recognition of R&+ pharmacies is backed by its clear commitment to the professionalization of pharmacies to favor pharmaceutical care of excellence.

The Association for the Research and Help of Wolfram Syndrome was awarded for its enormous work in promoting the research of this rare disease achieving, even implementing the world's first clinical trial for this disease.

For its part, the Anumayores Association works to combat loneliness in the elderly.The award has wanted to recognize the activity of groups like this in a year and a half in which the vulnerability of our elders has revealed.

The third edition of the awards has recognized the work of the Julio Cansino pharmacy, for its commitment to continuous training and passion for service to its users.The research category fell to the researcher Fernando Gilabert Vega, for his project 'Mindfulness Andalusian Collaborative Health Service, dedicated to supporting stress management and cultivation of the strengths of the organization'.The health promotion category in this third edition has fallen to the Altea Association (Almería Autistic Spectrum Disorder) for the development of physical activities associated with the development of user skills with ASD in the province of Almería;Within the ‘Social Inclusion through physical activity and sport’ project.

This awards ceremony has become an unavoidable appointment for Andalusian health.The event was not lacking representatives of different levels of the Andalusian Health Service and the Ministry of Health and Families, Hospitals Managers and Health Reference Professionals.

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AWARDS II EDITION

R&+pharmacies, a clear commitment to the professionalization of the pharmacy

Joaquín Campos, CEO of Pharmacies I+ collected the hand award of José Rodríguez Canovas, Cofares advisor.Campos thanked the prize and claimed the role of pharmacies in recent times so difficult.He also dedicated the award to all the components of R&+ Pharmacies "that with so much effort have thrown forward with this project and made our services a reality".

Wolfram Syndrome Research Association

The association was born in 1999 for the involvement of Dr. Gema Esteban, family doctor of Seville, resident in Almería, and of their relationship with a Cordoba family with three children with Wolfram syndrome.It was one of the founders of the Spanish Federation of Rare Diseases.He dedicated the award to affected families, defended the investigation from Primary Care and claimed greater efforts for the early diagnosis of rare diseases.

Anumayores Association, accompanying our elders

Isabel González, president of the Association, collected the award from the Health Minister Jesús Aguirre and dedicated the prize to all the volunteers who spend time to her elders.González stressed that 45% of the elderly are in a situation of unwanted loneliness.“We want to continue working and we need the support of citizenship.We will not stop because we will all reach that age and that situation, ”he said.

AWARDS III EDITION

Julio Cansino, a commitment to training and professional passion

The award wanted to recognize the unalterable principles of passion and formation of this pharmacy founded by his grandfather.Cansino dedicated the prize "to pharmaceutical professionals in particular and health, in general, who have lost their lives in this damn pandemic".He also referred to his father, for “his way of conceiving the pharmacy and his way of teaching the essence of the trade as an accessible and close health reference for the community.

Fernando Gilabert Vega, Stress Management Support Project

The Vice Minister of Health, Catalina García, collected the award on behalf of the award -winning, from Jorge Moya, Territorial Director of Teva in Andalusia.The prize recognizes the usefulness of the project focused on combating the stress of professionals and psychosocial prevention within the system itself.Catalina wanted to underline "the merit of the General Directorate of Personnel for taking care of our workers, which are our greatest wealth".

Altea Association, Almería Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Francisco Camuñez, Technical Coordinator of the Association collected the award of the Handle of Health, Jesús Aguirre.Camúñez recognized the families who took the step five years ago in Almería to establish this association and stressed “the hard times that we have lived these two years with the pandemic”.He thanked the prize, "which pushes to continue fighting the 150 families that I represent here today".