For years, if not decades, the people of Lanzarote have been complaining about the serious healthcare deficiencies that the citizens of the entire island have to suffer every day. The town only has two hospitals for the attention of all types of emergencies and surgical interventions, with the aggravating factor that both are located in Arrecife, which practically leaves the population of the other municipalities in a situation of health helplessness, whose inhabitants are forced to travel to the capital to receive care that the Constitution considers a fundamental right of all Spaniards.
With this health panorama, it is truly outrageous, as stated by the representative of the Workers' Commissions (CC OO) of the General Hospital of Arrecife, Laura Cabrera, that the entity's managers are throwing away beds in perfect condition, which could be used to cover the needs of other medical centers, or simply transferred to the Red Cross or any other NGO.
Furniture renovation
Laura Cabrera contacted this newspaper yesterday morning to inform the citizens of the Island that, given the renovation of the furniture that the management of the General Hospital is currently carrying out, the used beds are being thrown into the landfill.
Yesterday, first thing in the morning, Cabrera noticed that there were about fifteen beds thrown in the back of the hospital's maintenance area. Likewise, the union representative was able to verify that several of these components of hospital furniture had already been taken to the Zonzamas landfill.
Lack of beds in the Insular Hospital
Meanwhile, the Insular Hospital itself, the second center of this type on the entire Island, not long ago complained of serious financial problems and a lack of beds, which makes more than one wonder about the coherence with which the authorities of the island's public health system are managing an issue of vital importance to the population.
Ultimately, before taking the furniture to the landfill, it could be given to needy families, which, by the way, abound in this small paradise called Lanzarote. Not in vain, the social marginality of the Island of Volcanoes even exceeds the capital of the province, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The editors of LA VOZ tried to contact the manager of the Hospital, Blanca Fraguela, but it was an impossible task, as has always happened whenever any problem arises in the institution that the member of the Canarian Nationalist Center (CCN) directs with an iron fist.
On the other hand, Cabrera commented on the outrageous fact surrounding a fifteen-year-old boy who suffers from four pilonidal cysts and whom the Hospital has not yet operated on, after more than five months of waiting. The poor boy cannot leave his house, or even sit like everyone else, having to sit almost sideways. Cases like the one reported yesterday by this newspaper are very common in the General Hospital, as Cabrera confirmed.
