The Activa’TT Association, formed by researchers from Sant Pau, starts a crowdfunding campaign to raise money in favor of research into vascular diseases. One of the first actions is the campaign presentation video that you can see at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/activattdia-mundial-contra-la-trombosis.
Within the framework of the next World Day against Thrombosis, the researchers organized two activities: The Chronic Venous Insufficiency Prevention Campaign, which will take place in the hall of the Hospital de Sant Pau on October 11 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the presentation of the documentary by Alex Txikon, “Pumori, La hija de la montaña”, on October 13 at 7 pm at the Center Lluïsos d’Horta.
Activa’TT por la Salud is a non-profit association established in 2015 by health professionals from the Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau) and the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, in order to inform and raise awareness of the importance of vascular diseases and to raise funds for research in these diseases to improve research, its prevention, diagnosis and treatment. For this reason, it promotes training, research and information activities, aimed at patients, health professionals and society in general.
Events organized around the World Day against Thrombosis
October 11 9-14 h: Campaign for the Prevention of Chronic Venous Insufficiency: Ultrasound of the veins of the legs to discard varicose veins and thrombosis. Hall of the Hospital de Sant Pau.
October 13 at 19 h: Presentation at the Lluïsos d’Horta Center of Alex Txikon’s documentary, “Pumori, La hija de la montaña”. Get your invitation here: https://activatt.com/
Lluïsos d’Horta
Carrer Feliu i Codina, 7
08031 Barcelona
Metro Linea 5: Horta
Five components of the Sakana-Pumori Guipúzcoa expedition lost their lives on October 17, 2001 on Mount Pumori (7.161 meters high) as they were surprised by an avalanche when trying to make the summit. The other five components of the expedition could only give notice of what happened and, after trying an impossible rescue, they had to go back.
A year later, Arantxa Gurrutxaga and Peio Arrue, parents of Beñat (one of the dead climbers), returned to Nepal with a double objective: to approach the site of the tragedy to remember and pay homage to the disappeared and to try to find a girl from Nepal who appeared with his son in the last photo he had of him.
Thus begins the story of Suku Maya and the Arrue Gurrutxaga family, who is the driver of the documentary.
