The book about the Rally Bohemia helps children
In this May a new book has been published named Rally is named the Bohemia. It covers all 39 years of up-to-date held anniversaries of this cult competition. The premiere of this book supposed to be last year, but at the end it didn’t happen.
“Regarding the tragic end of last year’s anniversary we together with the Organizers have changed the original idea,” says the author, Dan Porazil. During the following year the content has been extended by rally guide for beginners, which emphasize the importance of health and safety. Another addition is very reverent, sensitive and decent and is related to last year’s Rally Bohemia. This was the way how the book was born in hard cover containing final 336 pages of A4 paper size, bilingual text, large number of photographs and the complete set of all official results. All of this printed on glossy paper for the price of 199 CZK. But the true originality of this feat should be searched for somewhere else. All the efforts aiming for its publishing has strong charity background. “The unbelievably low price was my intention. My great respect and big thank belongs to all partners of this project having contributed financially. They knew from the very beginning that publishing of this book is not going to be a matter of profit, it was an endeavour achieving a good thing.” What is it all about then? “I have negotiated with the head physician in Children’s Department in the Kladián’s Hospital in Mladá Boleslav, Ms. Alena Štolcová, M. D., about gaining money by the bookselling and consequently purchasing very special hospital bed specified for the smallest patients.” Everyone, who buys this unique masterpiece coming from the automobile sport environment for less than 200 CZK, contributes at the same time to small children patients.
The head physician, Ms. Alena Štolcová, M. D., has been very surprised by this project at first, but instantly also very pleased. The “rally” is of course a common word for her and that’s why it all makes her pleased, because the book introduces the Boleslavian competition to wide public and at the same time in terms of spectators’ health and safety it helps to spread the enlightenment: “I was very pleasantly surprised by the first information about this project. I haven’t met Mr. Porazil to-date yet and I knew about rally only briefly. But what I knew for sure was the missing special bed in our ICU department. We have sixty regular beds for children patients aged from new-borns to nineteen years old and two ICU bedrooms. First three-bed room is for new-born with intensive care incubators and one small heat insulated bed for infants, and second, larger, four-bed room is for bigger patients. But we have only one bed there, which is compliance with intensive care needs. All other beds are regular. According to financial limitations of the hospital we have unfortunately repeatedly failed in requesting a new special bed. I’m therefore very pleased by this excellent opportunity to have this situation solved and that the care for children patients will become one step better again. I myself, my doctor colleges and whole nurse team are very pleased, that despite current economically difficult situation there still are people out there, who care for destiny of children patients. After meeting Mr. Porazil I started to believe that it all will have a positive ending. I appreciated his enthusiasm for rally and deep knowledge in this field and also high standard of his previously published books. I also take very positively the fact, that in his third book he has included the chapter for spectators about health and safety, among all children are quite often. I thank Mr. Porazil and all others, which have co-operated on this project or have financially contributed. I wish there are more high-principled, well-educated and good-hearted people in our republic.”
“It is a very warm and great feeling indeed, that it all ended up successfully,” says the author. “We are pleased also by the fact, that we can introduce rally as the sports sphere to wide public. That it can help too. Our success is also a message and hopefully an impulse too for the city of Mladá Boleslav and Central Bohemia region. It’s a real pity that these two high institutions still haven’t valuated the economic income for the city and region gained thanks to the Rally Bohemia.”
There will be two acts of the official handover of the cheque for two ICU beds. First act will be in private party with all partners of the project and second one will take part just before the start of Rally Bohemia on the starting ramp. “We are sorry for every human life that flamed out because of watching rally. We feel this even deeper, because rally is a hobby of ours. It could be easily said that it’s not rally which kills, that it’s bad behaviour, not obeying the rules, lack of information. But it’s not that simple. Touching one’s conscience isn’t our aim. We have our methods how to show people that being a spectator of rally can be safer than a journey on D1 motorway from Prague to Brno or an ordinary bicycle ride across a town. We are also sorry because of the fact how media have insensitively acted in the light of recent events. Such a behaviour can be anticipated from commercial media hungry for press stunt, but public service media should be different. Events around rally can’t be flat-rounded. That wouldn’t be a good sign about the state of our society. Moralising talks are also not our aim,” add at the end duo of authors Dan Porazil and Jiří Fryje.
Order of the book can be made at www.peopleforrally.cz.
