Shriners
Around 30 doctors and nurses from the Shriners Burns Hospital for Children in Galveston, Texas evaluated some 160 children with varying degrees of burns at the Nuevo Hospital Civil in Guadalajara last weekend. Several of them were selected to travel to Texas for reconstructive surgery financed by the Shriners.
Doctors from the Shriners hospital have been making twice yearly visits to Guadalajara for the past ten years. They also visit several other Mexican cities in the course of the year.
The team was headed by Dr. Ted Huang, who praised the level of the Mexican specialists who work at the Guadalajara public hospital’s burns unit, which attends to around 200 young patients a year and carries out 500 surgeries.
On Saturday, July 24, members of the Junior League of Guadalajara helped the doctors and nurses with translations and entertained the children. The Junior League first became involved with the program when it purchased the first two special burn beds for the Hospital Civil Burns Unit.
The League’s members in Chapala donated a huge bag of crocheted bears that helped to ease the pain the little kids went through during their examinations.
The Shriners clinic will be coming back to the hospital for follow up visits and more surgery on December 11. Anyone who would like to donate funds that will be applied to that day’s visit should get in touch with the Junior League at (33) 3121-0887 or ligagdl2@prodigy.net.mx. League members plan to purchase coloring books, crayons and other items to entertain the kids during their long wait at the hospital (more than eight hours last Saturday).
Exhibit extension
Jose Clemente Orozco’s “Pintura y Verdad” (Painting and Truth) exhibition – featuring the largest amount of the artist’s work ever compiled under one roof – will be taken down on August 15 and not on July 31 as previously advertised. The show was two years in the making and comprises a whopping 345 pieces taking up 19 rooms in the Instituto Cabañas, which also houses his famous “Man of Fire” mural in the domed chapel.
To the theater by bike
The civil organization “To the Theater, by bike,” or “Al Teatro en Bici,” celebrated its first anniversary this week with a trip to the Degollado Theater.
Just over 700 cyclists attended the event that included presentations of awards to prominent members of the group.
The left-field group has now completed 50 outings to the theater by bike. Usually around 200 people join in the fun.
The Tuesday night events start at 8 p.m. at the Ex-Convento del Carmen at Avenida Juarez 638. Bikes can be rented at the nearby junction of Av. Juarez and 8 de Julio.
Each week the group pick a different theater to go to and see a show. The website www.alteatroenbici.com informs us that next Tuesday (July 3) the group will be riding to the Teatro Experimental.
The group is just one of a number of initiatives to promote bike riding and healthy living in Guadalajara.
Religious parliament
Guadalajara’s candidature to be the site of the 2014 Parliament of Religions of the World is official.
The city will compete against Brussels, Belgium and Dallas, Texas. The last parliament was held in Melbourne, Australia.
The Parliament of Religions of the World is an international organization based in Chicago, Illinois that was set up in 1893 in a bid to encourage dialogue between leaders of different religions all over the world.
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