Hospital da Luz supported Boccia Paralympic Qualification Tournament

A team of nurses from Hospital da Luz Coimbra ensured the clinical assistance to the 70 athletes from 25 countries.

Hospital da Luz Coimbra provided the clinical assistance in the 2024 Boccia Paralympic Qualification Tournament, which took place between the 23 and 27 March, at Pavilhão Mário Mexia, in Coimbra. With 25 countries represented and 70 of the top athletes in the modality, this tournament was organized by PCAND (Cerebral Palsy - National Sports Association) and World Boccia, with the support of the Portuguese Institute of Youth and Sports, the Portuguese Federation of Sports for Persons with Disabilities, and Coimbra Municipality.

The Coimbra 2024 World Boccia Paralympic Qualification Tournament was the last opportunity for boccia athletes to qualify for the 2024 Paralympic Games, which will take place in September. The fact that the tournament counted with the top world boccia players ensured a unique performance of tactics, precision, willpower and overcoming, that was worth watching.

Since this was the last qualifying competition for the Paris Paralympic Games, the tournament added to the excitement and commitment in the event of all the participants, in the BC1, BC2, BC3 and BC4 categories. These were five days of celebration of sportsmanship, inclusion and passion for paralympic sport. The teams from Japan, United Kingdom and Greece (in pairs BC3), Brazil, Malaysia and Spain (in pairs BC4), and Indonesia, China and Slovakia (in teams BC1/2) qualified for the Paris Paralympic Games. Portugal didn't qualify in pairs BC3 and pairs BC4, but the team BC1/BC2 had already qualified.

• Hospital da Luz Coimbra assigned a team of nurses - comprising Carla Gomes, Hugo Raimundo (both in the photo above, with the Portuguese team), Bruno Carrão, José Duarte, Rodrigo Jordão, Mafalda Pais, David Silva, Daniela Santos and Susana Francisco. They were permanently on site, in shifts, providing more immediate support to athletes during the five days of the championship.
• Besides primary care, these professionals were also responsible for referring to the Emergency Service of Hospital da Luz Coimbra whoever might need hospital care.

Boccia is a paralympic high-competition modality, since 1984. It was introduced in Portugal in 1983, during a course organized by APPC (the Portuguese Association of Cerebral Palsy), in close collaboration with CP-ISRA (the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association). PCAND is responsible for representing the modalities of boccia, senior boccia, tricycle, football 7-a-side, wheelchair slalom and polybat

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