Saturday, March 9, 2002: Drs. Luis and Lina Ocon of Salinas, California, were given the key to the city of Panama, Rep. of Panama, for the chiropractic humanitarian work provided in Panama during the past week. For seven days, 32 chiropractors, along with their staffs and some families, 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. This morning, 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 [them] 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 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."
