The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, on Wednesday congratulated the Association of Brain Damage of A Coruña (Adaceco) for its 25 years of history improving the lives of people with brain damage. It did so in an institutional act in A Coruña in which the mayor, Inés Rey, the provincial deputy Yoya Neira, the territorial delegate of the Xunta, Belén do Campo, and Juan Luís Delgado, president of the association, participated.
During her speech, the subdelegate thanked the Adaceco for her deep involvement and her continued work during this quarter of a century to provide people with acquired brain damage with a first-class care service in the city of A Coruña. “The work of the people and institutions who care for others is central to this society, and that care economy is becoming increasingly important as the years go by and our society is changing,” Rivas said.
The Deputy Delegate showed how important it is for the Government of Spain to act appropriately in terms of dependency, “because we are aware of the changes that Galician society will experience in the coming years,” she said. This respect indicated the need to go hand in hand with the rest of the administrations, “especially with the municipal ones, which are next to the families every day”. “Only in this way can an effective service be provided for dependent people and their families, through the best professionals, without whose daily work and effort it would be impossible to cover these people,” said Rivas, who took the opportunity to highlight the support they have and will have from the government.
The deputy delegate thanked the commitment and work of this institution in the care of people with acquired brain damage and their families of which, she said, “this Government is extremely proud.” In this sense, he claimed today’s act as “an act of recognition and a show of affection with which society and institutions have the opportunity to return to you in some way the much you do to care for those who need it most and to improve people’s lives, a commitment shared by this Government,” said Rivas.
Adaceco is an entity that works to improve the quality of life of people with brain damage and their families through neurorehabilitation therapies. In Galicia #calculate that there are about 7,000 affected by brain damage, 1,000 of them in the area of A Coruña. This disease is the second leading cause of death in men and the first in women.