The president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, has revealed that she suffers from multiple sclerosis and that she was diagnosed at the age of 19, when she was studying in Barcelona. This is what she explained this Tuesday at the preview of the short film ‘Today is not always‘, in which several women, including Prohens, share their experience in relation to the disease.
Prohens explained that“I had never told it before out of modesty” and expressed her gratitude and pride towards the Balearic health system and the improvements in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. In the short film he explains how he learned that he had multiple sclerosis and assures that the disease has marked “a way of understanding life”. “I live life like this with passion, everything I do,” she says. The leader of the Executive exposes that she had not explained her diagnosis out of“modesty“. “I find it hard to talk about it, not because I want to hide it, but because I am well and I was diagnosed very quickly,” she says.
This is my story. I have never told it before because I was ashamed, because I am not a reference of anything, but I can only be grateful and proud of our health system, of the improvements in the treatment of multiple sclerosis and of networks like today’s at the Teatro Pereira and the… pic.twitter.com/ApRoTVxKJc
– Marga Prohens (@MargaProhens) December 3, 2024
“Thank you very much Carmen Vidal, Ana Olivia, Ana Vide, Steffy Serra, Malén Baracco, Marta Aliá and Nerea Pérez for letting me tell tonight the story of my life and my diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in the framework of this essential short film of ‘Hoy no es siempre’, full of light and referents that show that, indeed, there are a thousand ways to fight the disease of a thousand faces”, Prohens stressed in a message on the social network X.
Thank you very much Carmen Vidal, Ana Olivia, Ana Vide, Steffy Serra, Malén Baracco, Marta Aliá i Nerea Pérez for letting me tell tonight the story of my life and my diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in the frame of this essential short film of ‘Hoy no es siempre’, full of light and… pic.twitter.com/mIHlTCPbOe
– Marga Prohens (@MargaProhens) December 3, 2024
The preview of the short film was held this Tuesday at the Pereyra Theater, as part of the event ‘A thousand ways to fight: an inspiring meeting’, which was also attended by the president of the Consell Insular de Ibiza, Vicente Marí. After the preview, the president of the Govern participated in the colloquium‘Living with multiple sclerosis‘, along with other women affected by this disease, in which she shared her experience and experiences in relation to multiple sclerosis.
