The HM Hospitales group will be the official medical provider of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) in the year of the centenary of said organization and until 2025, after the agreement signed by the president of the hospital group, Juan Abarca, and the federation, Jorge Garbajosa, in Madrid.
In this period of the agreement, the Spanish teams will play the World Cup and the Women’s EuroBasket in 2023, the Paris Olympic Games next year, and the two European Games, Men’s and Women’s, in 2025.
The firm anticipates that HM Hospitales will be the responsible for medical check-ups and health coverage of the players and coaching staff of the Spanish basketball teams.
The president of HM Hospitales, Juan Abarca Cidón, highlighted during the presentation of this agreement that “caring for health is part of the DNA of HM Hospitales”. It is a great pride that we now also take care of the health of all the athletes that make up the family of the Spanish basketball team, which is an example of teamworksacrifice and effort, values that all our professionals also treasure, so I am sure that the relationship between the Spanish Basketball Federation and HM Hospitales will be very interesting and enriching for both parties”, he commented.
A trusted partner
For his part, the president of the FEB, Jorge Garbajosa, has stressed the special illusion that he is “having a new traveling companion in the year of the centenary.” “An important moment for the institution, full of sporting challenges and that we have started as number 1 in the FIBA ranking. An exciting path in which we will have the support and involvement of HM Hospitales, a leading company in its sector and which begins this collaboration by demonstrating its enthusiasm for uniting objectives with us. For the FEB it is important to have a trusted partner in an issue as important as the health of our players,” he said.
The debut of HM Hospitales as official medical provider of the FEB will materialize in the next matches of the senior men’s team, which will be played in Reykjavik against Iceland this Thursday and in Cáceres against Italy, next Sunday.
Both matches qualify for the 2023 World Cup, which will take place in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia between August 25 and September 10, a tournament for which Spain has already qualified.
One hundred percent Spanish capital
Run by doctors and with 100 percent Spanish capital, HM Hospitales currently has more than 6,500 professionals spread over 48centers care: 21 hospitals, 3 highly specialized comprehensive centers in Oncology, Cardiology, Neurosciences, three specialized centers in Reproductive Medicine, Eye Health and Oral Health, as well as 21 polyclinics.