Donate works of plastic arts to Infantile Hospital of Camagüey

The noted group of fond of the plastic of Camagüey "Fidelio Ponce de León" donated to the pediatric hospital "Eduardo Agramonte Piña", of this city, 67 works inspired in classic and infantile stories.

«This has been a permanent debt with the children and with the physicians of the hospital that so much makes to save the lives of our children», commented Arsenio Olayo Portales, president of this group, been founded in 1984.

The artist added that the objective of the 29 creators was achieved that incorporated to the ornamental project For a smile, because today is other the image that shows and the atmosphere that is breathed in the room of Neurosurgery: «There is happiness in the expressions of family and hospitalized children», he argued.

The artistic gift to this infantile hospital also included 27 toys, made by the creators, and 10 copies of the book there was once, of great fame among the smallest. «We decide to buy in the passing International Trades of the Book those copies of there was once, for what contain their pages», Arsenio manifested who valued that from its stories the great ceramic mural that is shown to all the long of the central corridor of the Room of Neurosurgery was born.

The artists, starting from their creativity and own resources, leaned on in almost all the expressions of the plastic one, as the painting and others of the craft, among these size in wood, ceramic, fabrics, goldwork, mache paper, toys and dead nature.

The doctor José Montejo Montejo, boss of the service of Neurosurgery of this hospital, thanked proceeding artistic and highlighted how with love, desire and collective zeal ideas so human and disinterested can be materialized as the one carried out by the artists of the Fidelio Ponce.

It meant the positive effect that has had each work in the spiritual health of the one hospitalized from a beginning and of their companion. «It is necessary to see how they smile and the children play in spite of their ailment and graveness», the specialist concluded. (Yahily Hernández Porto)