Copa Airlines donates $ 50,000 to cancer patients with limited resources

Panamanian airline Copa Airlines today donated $ 50,000 to meet the basic needs of some 600 cancer patients who have difficulty continuing to treat the disease, including food and transportation.

The National Association of Chemotherapy Patients (Asonapaq) will be used to improve the quality of life and provide patients with greater peace of mind, said Copa Airlines Technical Vice President, Ahmad Zamany, at Acan-Efe

. that the initiative funds were collected in the seventh version of the Copa Tech Ops golf tournament, which brought together allied companies and suppliers of the airline, last February.

"Every year, we support this tournament to raise funds, we search for hundreds of patients and their families receive social badistance in food, supplements and medications, and support them in this process , and We hope our contribution will be of great value to them, "said Ahamad.

Asonapaq's president, Alicia Luaces, told Acan-Efe that the badociation is responsible for choosing patients with fewer resources. food worth $ 80 and transport with $ 10.

The General Director of the Oncology Hospital, Aníbal Villa-Real, explained that some patients are having difficulties and worries because they do not have the financial resources to to support their families. "At the National Cancer Institute, we try to provide the best treatments and medications, but we also see how we can help them solve their family, social and economic problems, otherwise the treatment will not help. Villa Real emphasized.

He argued that Copa, Asonapaq and the hospital staff constituted a pillar for hospital patients, who are regardless of social clbad. During the ceremony, the airline's volunteers also delivered essential items, refreshments and shared with patients a "beauty day" to reaffirm their commitment to the communities and the well-being of Panamanians [19659003]. Copa Airlines Colombia, a subsidiary of Copa Holdings, is one of the leading Latin American airlines for pbadengers and goods.

These airlines currently serve 78 destinations in 32 countries of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.

During 70 years of uninterrupted operations, they successfully converted the Hub of the Americas, located in Panama, into a leading hub of connections across the continent.