Last
month, Dr. Luis and Lina Ocon of Salinas, Calif. were given the key to
Panama City for the chiropractic humanitarian work provided in Panama. Dr.
Luis Ocon is a member of the World Chiropractic Alliance.
For seven days, 32 chiropractors along with their staff and some
family, provided care to the people of the country of Panama. The group,
known as Chiropractors Restoring Energy Worldwide (CREW) was in Panama for
the seventh time since the program began in 1997.
Chiropractors
provided care in civic gymnasiums, government offices, privately owned
factories and bus terminals, retirement centers, orphanages, malnutrition
homes, and prisons.
On Mar. 9, the mayor of Panama City, Juan Carlos Navarro, addressed a
large crowd that had gathered to receive chiropractic adjustments telling
them that the municipal government had sponsored the chiropractic
activities in order, "to offer one a better quality of life."
On previous missions to Panama, CREW has been responsible for providing
chiropractic care to more than 300,000 people in a single week. To date,
it is estimated that more than one million upper cervical chiropractic
adjustments have been received by Panamanians as a result of these
missions. The people of Panama always respond in large numbers and with
great appreciation for the chiropractic care provided to them.
Juan Carlos Navarro, the mayor of Panama City, is a graduate of
Dartmouth college and he holds a master's degree in public administration
from Harvard University. He has been selected by Time magazine
as one of, "the 100 more promising young leaders of the planet for
the next millennium."
