Mancha Blanca was dyed pink this Sunday on the occasion of the 7th Walk against Breast Cancer organized by the Association of Oncohematological Families of Lanzarote (Afol). From early in the morning, the black asphalt that covers the Plaza de Los Dolores was changing color due to the more than 500 people who gathered to start the walk.
At 10 in the morning, Carmen Arrocha, president of Afol, began the day with the reading of the vindictive manifesto, informing everyone present of "the unfulfilled promises by the politicians in turn without worrying in the slightest that people affected by cancer and their families face not only the challenge of survival and the harshness of the treatments, but also many problems of daily life: educational, social, emotional, economic, etc."
In the front row listening to Carmen Arrocha were the mayor, host of the municipality of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, the Minister of Social Welfare, Marciano Acuña, the Minister of the Elderly Area, Nori Machín, the Minister of Transport, Domingo Cejas, the mayor of the Teguise City Council, Olivia Duque, and councilors from other municipalities on the island, etc. All were witnesses to the words of Carmen Arrocha who encouraged those present to "not stand idly by in the face of so many unfulfilled promises by the different representatives who have been and are at the head of the Government of the Canary Islands, to the parliamentarians of Lanzarote to get more involved with Health". Arrocha reproached the politicians that "the only thing they say, when it suits them, is that everything is going well, that everything takes time, and that is because they do not have a cancer patient from Lanzarote and La Graciosa".
"It is a disgrace that we are still waiting for radiotherapy since 2016 and that to this day it is not finished, delivered and working," Arrocha continued. "They have the nerve to continue lying and making endless excuses." Carmen insisted that "health is not an expense, it is an investment." "We need politicians who get involved and fight for the Universal Health System, of quality, equitable and democratic, at the service of the population and that addresses the causes that bring us here today. That promote equity, social justice and are worthy of our vote and remember that looking the other way is not the solution," concluded the president.
After the reading of the manifesto, the walk started from the Plaza de Los Dolores to the Las Cadenas restaurant, returning again to the square where the Batucada Attenya, in charge of cheering them on at the exit, gave the walkers a warm welcome with a lot of rhythm and spectacular choreographies. According to sources from the organization, the collection this year amounted to about 4,500 euros.
