2023-07-03 15:59:47
He General Council of Pharmaceutical Colleges has delivered the ‘II Awards for Social Innovation: Pharmaceuticals and SDGs’ in an act that was chaired by the Minister of Health, José Manuel Miñones. These recognitions, organized with the collaboration of CaixaBank and AstraZeneca, aim to recognize the best initiatives launched by pharmacists and Official Colleges of Pharmacists and/or Autonomous Councils to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In total, they have delivered six awardsfour in the category socialand two in the environmental. Regarding the first, in the field of Official Colleges of Pharmacists, the winner has been the Very Illustrious Official College of Pharmacists of Valencia for the project’Sustainability of the rural pharmacy and VEC as a basis for improving life in rural areas and their depopulation. Healthy Circuits’, consisting of the development of screenings and training actions by community pharmacists from thirteen municipalities at risk of depopulation. The Minister of Health was in charge of presenting the award to María Teresa Vicedo, member of Farmacia Rural.
In the social category of pharmacists, the first prize went to Ishoo Budhari, from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, for the project ‘#JuntosXElCáncer – #JuntosXElCáncerDeMama – JUNTOSXTUSALUD’, which aims to provide accurate and verified information on different pathologies through social networks. Ishoo has received the award from Ramón Reyes, president of the Spanish Association Against Cancer. The second prize has been delivered by Luis Cayo, president of CERMI, to Águeda Ringfrom León, for the project ‘Well-being and Health in the World of Disability’ with which they have created a fully accessible and inclusive pharmacy.
In the environmental category, the prize for the Official Colleges of Pharmacists went to Malaga for its project ‘Environmental adaptation and integration of the ICOFMA‘ which has meant the total reform of the headquarters and the incorporation of the environmental perspective both in the construction of the building and in the long-term strategy of the College itself. The vice treasurer, Montserrat de Cuadra, received the award from Pilar Pasaron, Head of Corporate Affairs and Director of the AstraZeneca Foundation.
Gorka Oribe y Unax Lertxundi They have been the pharmacists recognized in this category by the ‘Basque Sustainable Pharmacy’ project, awarding Toni Rodríguez, director of CaixaBank Negocios. His project consists of creating an innovation program in the field of Pharmacontamination based on three axes: research, dissemination and promotion of solutions.
Lastly, the Direct Help award, given by Father Ángel, went to the ‘farmaSOLIDARIA Project to help homeless families’, from Madrid Carmen Torreswho for four months was a catalyst for donations from her neighbors that she later delivered to the Lázaro Foundation for the conditioning of apartments aimed at this risk group.
Likewise, the General Council has also awarded the rest of the finalists a diploma in recognition of their initiatives, representative of the commitment of the pharmaceutical profession for its impact on the community, replicability, alignment with the SDGs and capacity for social transformation.
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The Minister of Health, José Manuel Miñones, was in charge of closing the event and stated that “it is a pleasure, as a pharmacist, to participate in an act of the General Council and even more so in these awards for social innovation. The UN General Assembly adapted in 2015 its commitment to sustainable development based on seventeen objectives and 169 goals; a task that is incumbent on all of us, not just the administration. And in this sense, he added that pharmacists “are a key agent for our health system and with that mandate of the 2030 Agenda.” Finally, he recalled that he is working to make the ‘Rural Community Pharmacy Program’ signed last March between the General Council and the Ministries of Health, Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, and Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge a reality.
For his part, Jesús Aguilar, president of the General Council, recognized, in reference to the 41 projects presented in this call, that “you are all winners because, thanks to you, we have seen a glimpse, not only of what we can do , but of what we are already doing from the Pharmacy in favor of patients, vulnerable groups, and also to improve the environment. All of you are great examples of dedication, commitment and vocation for service that characterize the pharmaceutical profession”.
Likewise, Aguilar added that “our experience and closeness, guaranteed by a network of more than 22,000 pharmacies and 78,000 pharmacists, put us in a very valuable position to know the needs of the environment and to bring hope, health and well-being to our communities”, he concluded.
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