The Department of Health will use the stands of the Craft Fair, thanks to the collaboration of the Chamber of Commerce, which will stimulate more the center of the city and increase the number of exhibitors reducing costs.
The Councillor for Health of the City of Lorca, Antonia Lopez, this morning the fourth edition of the Healthy Lorca, to be held on Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 at the Plaza Calderon, between the hours of 10 to 14 h and 17 to 21 h, increasing the number of exhibitors over the previous edition.
Lopez explained that, as in the three years this event has been held, all Lorca who wish may make different medical tests free of charge (blood pressure, glucose, anthropometry, spirometry, glycosylated hemoglobin, ...), thanks to collaboration of 15 organizations and companies that have placed their stands at the new headquarters of this activity that seeks to promote health and healthy lifestyles, to disseminate the positive and negative factors that affect daily life, such as nutrition.
Planned activities at the fair include four lectures will begin at 19:00 pm in the Cultural Hall of the street Cajamurcia Pius XII, dedicated to sexually transmitted diseases and sports medicine on the first day, while the second day of antibiotics and smoking cessation.
In addition, visitors can taste fruits and vegetables and participating in sweepstakes spa treatments and spa's in the region.
For its part, the Department of Health will provide visitors with information on the different campaigns for health promotion and information campaigns conducted by the municipal area (SIDA, Snuff and Drugs).
Health Councilmember Chamber of Commerce thanked the transfer of the stands of the Craft Fair, which will further boost the downtown and increase the number of exhibitors reducing costs.
The sponsors of this edition are the III Health Area, Chamber of Commerce of Lorca, White and Blue, + broccoli, Market Square and Market Weekly Lorca, ATHISA environment, Amalthea hotel SPA center, Health 21, El Molino, Dimaeco 4D Hospital Virgen del Alcazar, Mundo bath lift, and Hostelor Vorwerk Kobold.
Thanks to these sponsors the celebration of the Health Fair is no cost for regional or municipal coffers.
SIDE EVENTS:
The Department of Health together with the management of Area III of the following presentations are scheduled in the Cultural Hall of street Cajamurcia Pius XII:
April 27
19:00 h "sexually transmitted diseases and parasitosis in our country" Valentín García Cadenas.
Clinical Analysis Specialist Hospital Human Reproduction and Rafael Mendez and Pablo Mazuela Teatino, Specialist in Microbiology and Parasitology, Hospital Rafael Méndez
20:00 h: "Sport and Health.
Joaquín Vicente López.
Medical Specialist in Sports Medicine and Physical Education.
April 28:
19:00 h: "Appropriate use of antibiotics" M ª José Úbeda Costa.
Family doctor.
Deputy Medical Health Area III.
20:00 h: "Smoking cessation."
Chains Miriam García.
Degree in Pharmacy
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca