Quirón Malaga and Unicaja basketball, uniting against cancer.

– players of the club E.G. Rowland and Kristaps Valters approached yesterday the hospital to invite patients to the game of Euroleague Championship to be held today

Málaga, February 2012.- by prevention, healthy living and sport ”. With this slogan, Hospital Chiron Malaga celebrates this year cancer prevention week II and makes it the hand of Unicaja basketball. Players of the club E.G. Rowland and Kristaps Valters yesterday came to the hospital to invite patients of the Center party in the Euroleague Top16 before Montepaschi Siena, to be held today in the Palace of the Carpena Martin sports, in a gesture that passes for inviting citizens to acquire healthy lifestyle habitsto discover that sports life is ” and for choosing the prevention. Because according to who (World Health Organization), almost 50% of cancers can be cured if they are diagnosed on time; i.e., they stress the need to prevent and to specialists that can detect most frequent tumors through analytical studies or appropriate image.

In addition, day international against cancer, which is held on Saturday February 4, Unicaja devoted vs. Obradoiro CAB to held on Sunday (12: 30 pm) to all those who are fighting against this disease, with the motto Unicaja basketball and Hospital Chiron United against cancer ”.

About Hospital Chiron Malaga

Malaga Quirón hospital has 24,360 square meters dedicated to healthcare and an equipment of cutting edge, more than 150 doctors and Surgeons of the highest level, and 35 medical specialties available to the patient. The hospital has 136 beds for hospitalization of which 25 are suites, 8 operating rooms and 250 parking spaces.

Also available all the services of a general hospital with 51 outpatient, hospital surgical day, face-to-face urgencies of adult, gynaecological and paediatric, localized emergencies of specialties, bathtub for natural births, adult ICU and neonatal ICU for the attendance of less than 32 weeks deliveries.

Hospital Group about Chiron

Currently, group hospital Chiron has seven general hospitals in Barcelona, Biscay, Madrid, Málaga, San Sebastián, Valencia and Zaragoza, as well as a day hospital in Zaragoza and three case in Bilbao, Pamplona and Torrente (Valencia) assisted reproduction centres.

Chiron is the first hospital in number of aided private patients as well as healthcare area of newly built in Spain, with a total of 207,000 square feet. All its centers are equipped with the most advanced equipment in diagnosis, treatment, and telemedicine, and in total, has 2,700 employees, manages 917 hospital beds, 104 beds of UCI, 103 operating theatres and 537 clinics.

Group Hospital Chiron has agreements with most medical insurers nationwide and in 2010 were in their hospitals 254.445 er, 87.715 income, 62.340 interventions, 6.410 births and 763.374 consultations.