Transgrancanaria and San Roque University Hospitals join forces for the next three years

 

Transgrancanaria, through its organizer Arista, and San Roque University Hospitals, have formalized during the morning of this Friday, July 29, an agreement by which the health group will carry out a comprehensive device during the next three editions of the mountain race healthcare that will be responsible for the health of the thousands of participants.

 

 

The union of the two companies, both leaders in their sector, will provide one of the best health coverage that can be remembered for sporting events held in the Canary Islands, with an unprecedented deployment of emergency teams to provide care in the shortest possible time and with the greater guarantee of any type of incident that occurs in the different modalities.

 

Registered runners will also benefit from special conditions in sports medical check-ups, including check-ups to obtain the mandatory medical certificate to be at the starting line of the Advanced and Classic races.

 

The vice president of San Roque University Hospitals, Herminia Rodríguez Rosas, indicates that “being able to provide health services for a race as important as the Transgrancanaria, with a global impact, is a great challenge that we face with great enthusiasm.” He also points out that from San Roque University Hospitals “we are going to offer, without a doubt, the best healthcare and we are going to make an effort to ensure that both our runners and those who come from outside feel supported”, above all “ At a time like this, after a pandemic, it is very important to demonstrate that we are a destination that can provide high-quality health services.”

 

 

For his part, Fernando González, director of Arista, points out that “Transgrancanaria is an international test that requires international health coverage.” With this agreement signed with San Roque University Hospitals, González adds, “we have a very promising future” with a health service “one of the best in the world and with which we know that we will live up to what the runners need.” .

 

 

González advances that for the next edition, “a totally new strategy” is already being defined for the treatment of injuries and pathologies related to mountain running. The director of Arista explains that “the refreshment points will have medical services” and that “there will be a new evacuation system, with very exhaustive location systems for these services to have a much more noticeable presence in the race than in previous years.” ”. Fernando González also emphasizes the post-race service that will be offered to participants, “which will be on par with Transgrancanaria” with a finishing hospital that will also be less than four minutes from San Roque University Hospitals in Maspalomas. This proximity will allow “a high-quality service and very fast attention.”

 

San Roque University Hospitals is the only private hospital with the “University” category in all of the Canary Islands. The health group has six centers spread across Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Cape Verde. They have all the top-level medical-surgical specialties, including Sports Cardiology, Medical Checkups, Dermatology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery, among others; in order to provide the best and highest quality coverage to resident and foreign athletes.

 

With this agreement, Hospitales Universitarios San Roque joins other brands such as Fred Olsen Express, Expomeloneras, 226ERS, Hotel Vital Suites Residencia and RS Sonocom Audiovisuales as main sponsors of Transgrancanaria, which also receives the support of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria through Tourism of Gran Canaria and the Insular Institute of Sports, Promotur of the Government of the Canary Islands, Maspalomas Costa Canaria and the City Councils of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Tejeda and Agaete.