The City Council will recognize Estepona’s healthcare sector at the Andalusia Day ceremony

The Consistory will name the former councilor Maria Miralles, the guitarist Jose Fernandez and the professor and historian Francisco Medina as Favorite Sons of Estepona. The City Council has organized a raising of the Andalusian flag in the neighborhood of Blas Infante.

The City Council of Estepona will recognize the health sector of the city in the institutional act of the Day of Andalusia, to be held this Saturday, February 28, at 12.30 pm in the Auditorium Felipe VI.

With this gesture, the Consistory wants to thank all the health centers of Estepona, both public and private, the work they do for the health of citizens. It will also pay tribute to significant medical professionals who are references for several generations of Estepona residents.

The hospitals and medical centers that will receive a special mention are: Estepona High Resolution Hospital, Estepona Oeste Health Center, La Lobilla Health Center, Hospiten, Vithas Medical Center, Los Reales Medical Center, Estepona Medical Center, Mar Medical Center and Hiperbaric Medical Center.

In the section on doctors, the City Council will award a special mention to the following professionals: Lorenzo Guerra (physician), José Luis Carrasco (physician), Francisco Mena Arce (cardiologist), María Trinidad Zurita López (physician), Antonio Sánchez (pediatrician), María Dolores Espinosa (physician), Fabricio Marchoni (physician), Concepción Chavarría (physician), Manuel Quintas (physician), José Robles (physician) and José María Martín de la Hinojosa (physician).

The nursing staff who will also receive special mentions are: Isabel Cabezón, Mercedes San Alberto, Miguel Cintrano, Pergentino Lazo, Isabel Ortiz, Francisco Cintrano and Miguel Cintrano. The event will also pay tribute to the volunteer interpreters who for years have accompanied foreign citizens in need of translation at medical centers. Sandra Mary Russell and posthumously David Milne Gordon will be honored.

Favorite Sons and Daughters of Estepona

The Estepona City Council agreed last week in plenary to award the titles of Favorite Sons of Estepona to the former councilor Maria Miralles, the guitarist Jose Fernandez, and the professor and historian Francisco Medina. These appointments will also take place in the institutional act of the Day of Andalusia.

María Miralles was a town councilor for the PSOE for 16 years, being a pioneer in equality policies, promoting the creation of the Women’s Information Center and offering direct and close support to the victims of gender violence. At the same time, she developed an intense cultural and associative activity as director and writer of the theater group of the Peñas Blancas Women’s Association.

José Fernández is an outstanding flamenco guitarist whose artistic and teaching career has contributed significantly to the dissemination of flamenco at an international level. Throughout his career, he has accompanied renowned flamenco singers and dancers, and has successfully toured internationally. At the same time, he has developed an outstanding teaching work, training generations of guitarists who today enjoy great recognition.

Francisco Medina has been director of IES Monterroso and a mathematics teacher much loved by several generations of Esteponeros. After his retirement, he has developed a facet as a writer of works where he collects episodes of the history of Estepona. In addition, we must highlight his altruistic work with the association Parkinson Sol, with which he collaborates assiduously.

Raising of the Andalusian flag

On the occasion of the Day of Andalusia, the City Council will hold a raising of the Andalusian flag on February 28, at 12.00 noon, at the traffic circle at the intersection of Avenida Libertad with Camino Vereda de los Frailes. The Consistory proposed this location because it is in the neighborhood dedicated to Blas Infante, father of the Andalusian homeland.