The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, stated this Tuesday that the behavior of the director of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS), Adasat Goya, during the parliamentary Health Committee was "unworthy and despicable," but he equated it to that of the New Canaries deputy Yoné Caraballo, which he considered to be "the same."
In the session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, and in response to the spokesperson for Nueva Canarias, Luis Campos, Fernando Clavijo has apologized for what happened in the committee and for the "spectacle of the members of my government," after Goya's allusion to Caraballo's medical leave, and has stated that he is not satisfied with the performance in that committee "by both parties, not only by Goya's."
"That is not the style of the Government I preside over," Clavijo pointed out, insisting that "Caraballo was the one who started making personal allusions," whom he accused of believing himself morally superior "to the rest of mortals" for having worked as a healthcare worker during the pandemic.
Fernando Clavijo has also hinted that this "data revelation" that Caraballo has denounced, and for which he has requested protection from the Parliament's Bureau, has also been perpetrated by the deputy on other occasions "with the manager of the Hospital of Lanzarote".
"I apologize and it will not happen again," Clavijo assured.
In his turn, Luis Campos has asserted that every minute that Goya remains at the head of the SCS "is an indignity for the Government, the people of the Canary Islands, the professionals, and the users."
Campos has accused Goya of being "a proven incompetent in his management at the University Hospital of the Canary Islands" and pointed out that the important thing is not where he obtained Yone Caraballo's medical data, but how he used it.
"It doesn't matter if Yone published them or if he was told five minutes before the commission began. What is undignified and miserable is the use of personal data and medical records to attack him politically. Not just anywhere, not in a bar, but in parliament, talking about waiting lists. Faced with a lack of data and a political response, he goes for the personal attack to try to humiliate and coerce the opposition in its oversight work," Campos summarized.
And whoever crosses that line, she has denounced, "is the one who should ensure the correct use of health data and who knows that they should not use that data and crossed a barrier."
"If you don't fire him, you are politically responsible," Campos concluded.
