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Workers from the Oncology day hospital have recorded this choreography with the aim that the dance promoted by women affected by the disease reaches Pablo Motos' program.
Several workers at the Oncology day hospital at the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza have joined the viral challenge launched a few months ago by the Metastatic Breast Cancer Association to give visibility to this disease that "affects 2 out of every 10 breast cancer patients." breast", according to data from this association, made up mostly of women.
The initiative was born in the month of December, when several affected people unite around a viral choreography to gain support and have a speaker in the media. "Due to the health restrictions that exist, we found it very difficult to do charity races and other events that we organized to raise funds, so we thought of drawing the attention of a prime-time program, such as El Hormiguero, and we did a 'challenge' which consists of doing the program dance," explains Olga Sande, member of this state association.
Since last December 24, when they began to spread this challenge on social networks, numerous groups - including firefighters, police officers and researchers such as Alberto Jiménez Schuhmacher from Aragon - have joined the cause and have recorded themselves in different scenarios with a common goal: to help these women make the leap to television so that their illness is known and more research is done in the near future.
"Any group can record themselves doing the dance and saying that they want to go to El Hormiguero. In this way we manage to give visibility to the association and our motto: 'More research for more life,'" underlines Olga, who appears "overwhelmed" by all the expressions of solidarity and affection that they have received to date. "We have received videos from all over Spain, even from Mexico and Argentina. Everyone's intention is that: to convey the need to invest in science because our disease has no cure and we depend on research to advance," he emphasizes. This Coruña.
The first step for the cause in Aragon was taken a few weeks ago by Zaragoza researcher Alberto Jiménez Schuhmacher, who participated with his group in a choreography that they recorded at the Zaragoza Clinical Hospital.
Now the initiative has jumped to Servet, and the association trusts that the challenge will continue to live on social networks until it achieves its goal of having the presenter Pablo Motos echo this dance in his program.
