El Reina Sofía opens its doors with its first Health Fair

The Reina Sofía University Hospital celebrates its first Health Fair this Tuesday, October 27, an open day in which patients, volunteers, professionals and citizens share health promotion activities and cultural proposals in different areas of the healthcare complex. The initiative is part of the hospital's 50th anniversary programme.

In the hospital's Plaza Nueva, between 10.00 and 12.00 hours, Nursing professionals from several departments staff stands and workshops. Cardiology carries out blood pressure, heart rate and blood glucose checks. Intensive Care gives a practical cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) workshop. Nutrition teaches how to identify sugars on food labels and offers information on complementary infant feeding through the Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) method. Endocrinology performs body composition assessments with a bioimpedance scale and Rehabilitation dedicates a workshop to the pelvic floor.

Around twenty patient associations and volunteer organisations show their lines of work and the resources they offer to patients and families. Among them are AOCOR, ACPA, the Asociación San Rafael de Alzheimer, ASPACACOR, Autismo Córdoba, the Asociación de Trasplantados Hepáticos de Córdoba, ACOLU, Nuevo Respirar, the Asociación Sonrisa de Lunares, TDAH Córdoba, the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC), ASAENEC, Cruz Roja de Córdoba, GEA Voluntariado, ACOARE, ALCER, FAISEM, ASMES and the Asociación Cordobesa de Parkinson. In the main lobby of the Hospital General, from 10.00 to 15.00 hours, 'Pianos por la vida' is held, a musical marathon of the Festival Internacional de Piano Rafael Orozco in which 43 young pianists from the Conservatorio Profesional de Música Músico Ziryab and the Conservatorio Superior de Música Rafael Orozco take part. In the same space, the winning works of the I Concurso de Pintura Rápida del 50 aniversario are exhibited: Laura García Ortega (first prize), Fernando Angulo Torralbo (second) and Rafael Jiménez Reyes (special mention).

At 12.15 hours, in the assembly hall, the documentary 'Sangre, sudor y alegría' is screened, co-directed by Rodolfo Montero and Rosana Marcos, which tells the experience of five people with haemophilia and their families on the Camino de Santiago. The screening includes a film forum. The hospital's managing director, Francisco Triviño, has stated that the fair will become an annual meeting with the public around the centre's birthday. The presentation of the musical activity is attended by the delegate of Culture and Historical Heritage of the Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Isabel Albás, and the festival's artistic director, Juan Miguel Moreno Calderón.