Torrevieja marked World Polio Day on Saturday 24 October by lighting the new AGAMED building and the Centro de Ocio Paseo del Mar red.
The event brought together representatives of Rotary Club Torrevieja and the two supporting organisations to raise the profile of the international campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis.
The lighting brought the awareness initiative to two buildings in the city as part of the symbolic actions associated with the worldwide day.
Rotary and supporting organisations take part
Rotary Club Torrevieja was represented by its president, Sergio Sáez; its sergeant-at-arms, Paula Inés de León Soria; vice-president Noelia Arenas; and treasurer Mariángeles Pérez, alongside other club members.
Also taking part were Gemma Cruz, deputy manager of AGAMED, and Carmen Abenza, manager of the Centro de Ocio Paseo del Mar, as well as businessman Enrique Riquelme.
The club specifically thanked AGAMED and the leisure centre’s management for joining the initiative and helping to spread its message to the public.
Both buildings shared the red lighting associated with these awareness activities, intended to keep the goal of worldwide eradication in the public eye.
A local contribution to End Polio Now
Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign mobilises resources, volunteers and institutions to support vaccination and the efforts aimed at bringing the disease to an end.
The World Health Organization explains that polio is a highly infectious viral disease mainly affecting children under five, although any unvaccinated person can contract it.
It can affect the nervous system and cause paralysis; there is no cure, but it can be prevented through vaccination, according to the WHO’s information sheet.
The WHO identifies two available vaccines, oral and inactivated, used in different combinations depending on local circumstances.
The global eradication initiative began in 1988 following a resolution of the World Health Assembly, bringing together partners from the public and private sectors.
Against that background, Torrevieja’s lighting linked the local commemoration with international prevention efforts and the shared goal of eradicating the disease worldwide.
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