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Francisco Fernández Fernández (better known as Paquito Minister), Favorite Son of Molina de Segura, died Wednesday April 17.
The wake takes place in the Rainbow Funeral Molina de Segura and the funeral mass will be held on Thursday, April 18, at 11.00 am, at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption of the city.
On February 2, 2009, the Municipal Council of the City of Molina de Segura agreed to appoint favorite son of this county to Francisco Fernandez Fernandez, while the Local Government agreed to allocate a street with the name of the Minister Paquito Practitioner, as a tribute and distinction to this molinense.
Francisco Fernández Fernández was born in Molina de Segura on October 9, 1935.
His childhood and adolescence were marked by the consequences of the Civil War, his father imprisoned and the family vicissitudes of isolation and discrimination.
With 19 years obtained from the Faculty of Medicine of Valencia the title of practitioner / midwife and begins to rural nursing practice in Molina de Segura, in a time dominated by poverty, ignorance and poor hygienic conditions of the population.
He made his profession a passionate delivery, and commitment minded, to the point of suffering, by contagion, typhus disease, assisting patients in caves, inaccessible or in adverse situations, living daily with anxiety and pain.
Fostered at this time their innate skills teacher, seeking disclosure of healthy habits among the population attending, while continuing his own training as health.
In the sixties obtained diploma ATS Madrid company, working for the health and safety at work, in the numerous canneries of the municipality, performing a labor of years in this area.
In 1977 Mutua Murcia Molina opened in Healthcare Clinic delegation and Labor, Francisco Fernandez being the head of the department of preventive medicine, contributing their personal work to foster numerous vaccination campaigns, health information, training courses, many of them pioneers, workers Township and the Region of Murcia, where he, along with his dedicated work as a nurse in the fifties and sixties, one of the most important milestones of his biography as health, the trainer, the popularizer of health habits , for which he has received throughout his career, numerous recognitions.
In 1975 he has served as secretary of the Association of Practitioners and Midwives in the Region of Murcia, promoting reorganization of curricula and dignity of the profession of nursing.
From the year 2000 begins a work of historical and cultural research on Molina de Segura, under his personal experience of their treatment closer to the people of the town, which for generations have been recipients of her work as a nurse.
So, after several years of data collection, anecdotes and experiences, gives birth molinenses book and forgotten customs, the first edition of 2003, with a circulation of 1,000 copies, is running the same day of your presentation and makes, in 2008, the book reeditase, corrected and augmented, with a circulation of 3,000 copies is also completely exhausted, and aroused unusual interest of the general population.
Also noteworthy participation in television programs about the history of the municipality, as a lecturer, research contributing their knowledge of the municipality.
In short, the life's work of Francisco Fernandez Fernandez is indelibly linked to the town of Molina de Segura, with a clear vocation of service to his people, since very young, for over fifty years in the field of health, both in direct patient care, their care, as prevention and outreach efforts, noting also their interest and dedication to the field of research of culture and historical memory of the people.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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