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The City Council and the Autonomous Community have renewed the collaboration agreement for doctors to refer patients to perform exercises designed for free during a quarter in municipal facilities.
Councilman Sports Councillor for Health and the City of Lorca, Francisco Martinez and Juan Mari Carmen Ruiz, reported that "more than a thousand people participated in the last three years in the first experience of Activa program, health sports prescription the town of Lorca. "
Ruiz explained that "following the success of the Consistory Lorca and the Autonomous Community have renewed for four more years the cooperation agreement so that doctors can refer patients to perform exercises designed for free during a quarter in municipal facilities with a specialized monitors that provides the Ministry of Health ".
Martinez added that "the intention is that during the new period this program, which involved people aged 30 to 65 with diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, ..., scope is extended also to families with children with overweight ... ".
The mayor of Health has stated that "the beneficiaries of this program are patients whose doctor they derive directly from the Sports Council prescribes their part in the 30 sessions that give each person in order to introduce them in a sport that they benefit ".
Sports Councilman explained that "this service is independent of the Department provides sports medicine and are 50 primary care professionals who advise patients with diseases or risk factors on the benefits of physical exercise and maintain habits Healthy life".
Specifically, Mari Carmen Ruiz said that "the idea is to improve the health of our patients and in order that it becomes a healthy habit. However, he said, the activities will always have advice from professionals and be targeted by a specialist to avoid injury and to adapt to the possibilities of each individual "monitor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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