The path by which you access the South Hospital emergencies It couldn’t have had a better name than the one that has been on a plaque since yesterday, Dácil Martin Cuffthe young woman who died in 2015 at the age of 34 who has become an icon in the fight against cancer and who promoted, two years before her death, free transport for cancer patients from the South to the University Hospital Our Lady of Candelariaa service that, 10 years later, has been consolidated in the southern region.
Dácil, who had been fighting a malignant pathology since 2013, mobilized a group of volunteers from the Spanish Association Against Cancer to have a vehicle that facilitated transfers without the patients having to depend on the availability of their relatives or their economic capacity. to face an average cost of 250 euros per month.
After promoting several charity shows, Dácil opened the door to a solution based on collaborations with companies such as Archiauto, which provided an eight-seater bus for free for a year, until the subsequent acquisition of a 17-seater vehicle, which he helped the resident British colony in the South. This is how the Solidarity Kilometer initiative was born. The plaque unveiled yesterday in her honor by the mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, and the councilor José Alberto Delgado includes an inscription that summarizes the contribution and meaning of the young volunteer: “She valued every day of her life, she appreciated the small things , he kept moving forward and then, he inspired the people around him.”
10 years have passed and the mark of this patient courage endures in a service that today no one would conceive of not existing in the region. Nor have the lessons of optimism that she instilled and Dácil’s vital message disappeared.
The act, which was attended by the honoree’s brother, featured a performance by students from the Arona Municipal School of Music and Dance, who performed various pieces.
