There are times when doing the things that a President must do is impressive, gratifying and shocking all at the same time. This is one such occasion. The Institut Guttmann is an achievement which suggests humanity can be improved, that there is room for improvement. Thank you!
I am very grateful to the Institut Guttmann for the great work you carry out with people with disabilities and for the opportunity given to FC BARCELONA to be closer to the problems that concern our people and to help promote sports for people with disabilities, particularly wheelchair basketball, through the agreement we have signed today. With all my appreciation and admiration,
Congratulations on such an impressive facility, which is among the best rehabilitation centres I know, both for its clinical work and research plan. The Guttmann centre is, without a doubt, at the forefront of rehabilitation centres worldwide. The results of your work, hopefully, will be presented at conferences and symposia and published in scientific journals, for the benefit of the entire...
It was a great pleasure and an honour to be invited to visit Institut Guttmann, to meet such great people in terms of both their scientific knowledge and humanity, and to give a lecture. The Institute is an impressive example of what research and care should be like. I congratulate the director, the doctors and the rehabilitation staff for their achievements and service. I wish the Institute all...
With thanks to the Institut Guttmann team, who have given me the opportunity to see, first-hand, a shocking but all too unknown reality. Many congratulations for your personal involvement in bringing science and humanity into so many daily tragedies. With the hope that, one day, we will be like the countries “further north”, where they say the people are “clean, noble, cultured, rich, free, alert...
With sincere thanks to the Institut Guttmann, for all your work throughout an already long history, for your realistic hopes, for saving people from despair. On my visit today, on 7 April, International Health Day, devoted to the modern epidemic of road accidents. Having visited the magnificent facilities, I have reaffirmed my conviction that cars are a symbol of freedom and well-being, but that...
For me it is a pleasure to be here at Fundación Guttmann, a well-known institution which I have been aware of and admired for many years. Together, from the Generalitat of Catalonia, from the Department of Health, we will move forward.
Creation of the Social Participation Council of the Institut Guttmann, the first of its kind in Spain. Agreement with Spaulding Rehabilitation Centre and Harvard University for the Spanish issue of the rehabilitation magazine "Rehab in Review."
Today I am experiencing a very special feeling. Signing this book makes me feel committed to the goal of seeking and defending the rights of all those people who have a disability. As a Mayor, and as a person, I feel honoured to have this institution in my city, in the centre of Canyet i Pomar, the place where I spent my happy childhood. As such I want to make a commitment to making every effort...
