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The Quironsalud Foundation supports the fight against CF with a donation of €500.00 from its “Solidarity Payroll” program to the Education equals Health in Cystic Fibrosis program of the Respiralia Foundation.
Quironsalud Foundation
The Quironsalud Foundation is the result of the merger of different foundations of the most important national hospital groups, and was created as a firm commitment of the Quironsalud hospital group to contribute to the improvement of society in a transparent, innovative, sustainable and committed way.
Quironsalud Foundation activities
Thanks to a workforce of more than 40,000 people, Quironsalud Foundation has a powerful program for its corporate volunteering, with which it can give visibility to projects of third-sector entities and invite its staff to collaborate in various ways in each of them.
In addition, they carry out international cooperation actions, support patients and families, generate knowledge, promote healthy habits and lifestyles, and promote and support research and teaching.
Education equals Health in Cystic Fibrosis project
This project seeks to enable people with Cystic Fibrosis to manage the treatment of their disease in the most autonomous way possible, generating greater self-esteem, less dependence on the professional team and an improvement in their quality of life.
The co-responsibility of the user is the basis of this work system, so that the team of professionals trains and the user executes the techniques learned, in this case Autogenous Drainage, inhaled therapy, hygiene measures and re-education to effort.
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic, serious and degenerative disease that to date has no cure.
It mainly affects the respiratory, digestive, reproductive and sweat glands.
The treatment for Cystic Fibrosis includes antibiotherapy, a healthy and hypercaloric nutrition and respiratory physiotherapy combined with endurance exercises.
You can see the infographic published by the Cystic Fibrosis Spanish Federation in this link (Spanish version) or see how Dani tells us what this disease is for him in this vídeo (Spanish version).
Currently, more than 2000 mutations are known in the gene that is defective in people with Cystic Fibrosis, although only about 150 mutations are described as causing the disease.
Statistics show that 1 in 5,000 people in Spain has Cystic Fibrosis (1 in 6,400 in the Balearic Islands) and 1 in 35 people is a carrier of a gene that causes the disease (1 in 40 in the Balearic Islands).
In the Balearic Islands there are 76 known diagnosed cases, but statistics speak of between 85 and 90 possible cases.
The awareness project of the Respiralia Foundation aims to raise awareness of this disease in order to discover those cases of people who have Cystic Fibrosis but have not yet been diagnosed.
