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The people’s paper Issue No. 1890 23 - 29 Sept 2021
Padron online RINCON DE LA VICTORIA Council has announced it has made the process of getting a copy of their padron easier by allowing residents to download it online. The council is now allowing locals to download their padron a t w w w. s e d e . r i n c o n delavictoria.es/carpe ta-ciudadana/ using a digital certificate. C o u n c i l l o r f o r I n t e rnal Affairs, Josefa Carnero, said: “Any citizen will be able to instantly access and download their individual Informe Padron, avoiding travel and waiting times.” The mayor of Rincon de la Victoria, Francisco Salado, said the council was working to allow residents to carry out more administrative tasks online. Councillor Josefa added: “The only requirement to do this is to have the digital certificate that, for those who do not yet have one, can be requested at the council.”
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LARA’S APPEAL RODRIGUEZ: Visited the cancer screening unit.
LARA GRACIE: Needs to receive life-saving surgery.
JOHNNY and Steffi Gracie from Miraflores are issu‐ ing an urgent appeal for funds for their daughter, Lara, who has been given just months to receive life‐saving surgery. The 12‐year‐old, who was born with unexpected mental and physical dis‐ abilities, was diagnosed with a rare form of stage 3 lymphoma by coinci‐ dence whilst undergoing a complicated mouth surgery at the age of five. After having nearly lost her due to pneumonia close to the end of her chemotherapy, she defied all odds and pulled through. However, due to her being unwell during chemotherapy and the
lack of proper physiother‐ apy during this difficult time, her condition dete‐ riorated drastically, leav‐ ing her diagnosed with 93‐degree scoliosis, with surgery scheduled for 2020. The pandemic de‐ layed Lara’s operation, however, and this year an orthopaedic surgeon said that Lara’s condition had now reached 105 degrees and gave her an 80 per cent probability of com‐ plications from surgery and paralysis. Her father Johnny said, “One of the side effects causes gastric reflux ev‐ ery night while Lara is asleep, from which she could potentially choke and die.” Johnny and Steffi ap‐
proached another doctor, however, at the Chil‐ dren’s Hospital San Juan de Deu in Barcelona who has the necessary tools, knowledge and experi‐ ence to do her surgery. The price for the opera‐ tion is set to be more than €50,000 however, and the couple’s health insurance has said it will not cover Lara’s surgery. Johnny explained, “This leaves us with little more than one month to raise the necessary funds.” To achieve this Johnny and Steffi set up a Go Fund Me page, which has already raised €5,670. They are asking the public to “give a little in order to save our Lara from dy‐ ing.”
To donate to Lara’s operation visit www.gofund.me/4820b1d1
Screening services THE Nerja health centre will be hosting a mobile breast can‐ cer screening service until Monday, October 25. Women aged 50 to 69 in Nerja will be sent an appoint‐ ment for a mammogram at the unit, with 2,100 women ex‐ pected to be screened for cancer while the service is in place. Nerja’s councillor for Health, Javier Rodriguez, visited the unit and encouraged all women who receive an appoint‐ ment to attend the test to detect the disease in its early stages. The council said the, “campaign makes it possible to im‐ prove the prognosis of breast cancer and use less aggres‐ sive treatments for women affected by it thanks to the comprehensive and individualised approach of the profes‐ sional teams that treat this disease. Thanks to early detec‐ tion, 95 per cent of diagnosed women survive the disease.”