Rotary Club of Lobos
EXO Argentina participated in a meeting at the Rotary Club of Lobos on the occasion of the purchase of Mobile Diagnostic Centers (MDC) that will be donated to different first aid rooms. The event was attended by Fernando González, EXO's Institutional Relations and International Business Manager, and by Rotary authorities, the Mayor of Lobos, and the Secretary of Social Assistance of Lobos. The equipment was purchased from EXO through an investment of more than 14 million pesos, including equipment, accessories and training.
The CDMs will be donated to equip the CAPS of Las Chacras, Zapiola, Salvador María, Antonio Carboni, and Elvira. Gabriel Troncoso, one of the Rotarians who worked most intensely on the project, said, "This is the most important global grant in the 82-year history of our club, and it was possible because we presented the project to the Rotary Foundation and Rotary International, found a member of the Rotary Club of Asheville, USA, and everything went as we thought it would.
The president of the Rotary Foundation Committee of District 4905 to which Lobos Rotary belongs, Ramon Zoni, emphasized that "this is the magic we have in Rotary, the possibility of uniting more than 33,000 clubs and one million 200,000 Rotarians in the world so that together, we can do works in the communities, do good in the world". And he added "from now on this is a stage, this project begins to work in the community, and from the Rotary Foundation we are going to ask for reports on the operation of the equipment for at least 3 years, it is not an audit, we just want to check that we are using the community funds well".
For his part, Fernando Gonzalez of EXO pointed out that "this technology was not developed to sell one more product, there was a commitment and a deep idea since 2015 to bring specialists to all people, and together with the National University of Rosario, we managed to reduce in a computer different parameters for health diagnosis, with an easy use for people who are not doctors but who are trained to facilitate it".
Finally, Mayor Etcheverry closed the ceremony by pointing out that "the dimension that this has for the rural communities is enormous, I am from one of them, where there is no doctor because it is not convenient. Words are not enough to describe this, I know how much work it has demanded, and the work done by Marisol Ale and the entire Social Development Department was also impeccable", he said visibly moved.