The pandemic of covid On the first day of the year, the life of an illustrious Valencian woman in the field of medicine, of the Fallas and, of retruque, of Valencia CF has taken her. The cardiologist Grace Tormo Esplugues, who could not overcome the deterioration in health generated by the virus and who has died after spending two weeks in the ICU.
Dr. Gracia Tormo, who he practiced medicine in both public and private healthHe had followed the vocation of his father, also Dr. Vicente Tormo, one of the city’s great cardiologists and introducer in Spain of cardiac rehabilitation programs and president of the Spanish Society of Cardiology and the city’s College of Physicians. In the early eighties he assumed the presidency of the Valencia CF at the most critical moment of its existence. He was in charge of the club when it was miraculously saved from relegation in 1983, something that could not be reissued three years later, when he resigned shortly before relegation was consummated.
Both Gracia and her sister Emilia held, respectively, the vice-presidency and presidency of the Vicente Tormo Foundation, destined to the study of cardiovascular diseases.
Too She was a faller from the commission of Isabel la Católica-Cirilo Amorós, of which she was in charge of the Offering. Involved in the commission since the second year of its existence, her two daughters were older and child falleras and her two sons, child presidents. “Countless good memories of the falla are linked to his person. Today sadness floods us,” the commission wrote. He was part of the historical group of it. Her husband was a classmate of some of the notable members of the commission such as Ángel Marcos, Ricardo Jiménez or Vicente Ebri.
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