Valentine's Day Candy-Grams

The club held a successful candy-gram drive for Valentine's day! Selling over 110 bags of candy, we raised $225 for the mammography campaign. This will provide 9 mammograms for women in our sister clinic in Alajuelita. To learn more about different Adopt-A-Projects sponsored by FIMRC visit https://www.fimrc.org/adopt-a-project/.

Cases of breast cancer, the most common type among Costa Rican women, increased 63 percent between 2000 and 2013, while mortality rose 43 percent in the same period, a group of 31 specialists from public hospitals reported... (Arias, The Tico Times, 2016)