The
lymphedema Association of Galicia meets with the Ministary of Health,
to transfer the need of support by the Reagional Government
Administration, to be able to give continuity to the Lymphedema
Specialized Physiotherapy Program.
Present
on behalf of the Health Administration was the Minister of Health Mr.
Jesús Vázquez Almuiña, as General Director of Health Care Mr.
Jorge Aboal Viñas , and as Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Health
Ms. Josefina Monteagudo Romero. On behalf of AGL its president Juan
Manuel Lameiro, AGL Social Worker Ms. María Araujo Rey and the
Director of the Social Healthcare Commission of COGAMI (The Galician
Federation of Disability) Ms. Laura Quintáns.
According
to data by the Spanish Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery and
the Spanish Society of Physical Medicine, it is estimated that more
than 900,000 people in Spain suffer from lymphedema, and in Galicia
about 50,000. More recent data double these numbers.
The
Galician Lymphedema Association, with its central office in
Vilagarcía de Arousa, started up in 2017 a subsidized maintenance
treatment project, for people suffering from this disease. This has
been able thanks to the collaboration of the Once Foundation and the
Ministry of Health. The program consisted in access for members of
AGL to subsidized manual lymphatic drainage maintenance treatment, conducted
by specialized physiotherapists.
This
treatment must always be performed by physiotherapists specialized in
lymphedema. The association counted with specialists in the four
Galician Provinces and the greater cities of the CCAA, giving
treatment to more than 100 people.
Lymphedema
is the result of a failure in the lymphatic system; it is a severe,
chronic and slow progressing disease. For the treatment of this
sickness there are no medicines or resolutive surgical interventions,
the conservative physiotherapeutic treatment for lymphedema, is the
one that has demonstrated the most effectiveness in preventing the
worsening of the condition.
Information
regarding the project carried out in 2017:
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For global awareness it is being asked that the
WHO - WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION,
name:
"LYMPHEDEMA - AWARENESS & CURES"
as the World Health Day campaign
KATHY BATES
LYMPHEDEMA EMBASSADOR
