Mr. Luis Enrique Poveda, in an interview with Radio Panama, gave details of the 20-30 Telethon with the motto “United We Change Lives” that will take place on Friday, December 16 and Saturday, December 17 at the Atlapa convention center where the goal project It is the adaptation and implementation of the first hybrid operating room for the Santo Tomás Hospital.
“A hybrid operating room is an operation system that manages times, which reduces risk times, for example, a person who arrives with a bullet impact or a car accident requires several surgeries and has to move between floors and time is wasted. valuable, with the hybrid operating room images can be presented in real time so that doctors can see specifically the affected areas in the person more quickly and that can compromise their lives”, highlighted Poveda.
It is expected that this modern hybrid operating room will benefit more than 400,000 people who use the town hospital both in outpatient consultations, as well as in surgeries and hospitalization mainly for the areas of Central Panama, as well as West Panama, San Miguelito and surrounding areas.
For this year, the star ambassador is the 8-year-old boy Jesús Daniel Ávila Lotero who attends the La Mesa de Pacora school, who was diagnosed with tetramelia, a congenital disorder characterized by missing limbs About the realization of the Telethon 20-30 in the years 2020-2021 with the pandemic that affected all kinds of events, Mr. Poveda commented, “Since the pandemic began we have not stopped the telethon, we were able to
