The Government of the Canary Islands will give a "provisional" solution to the processing of files for the recognition of disability in Lanzarote, which have been paralyzed for months due to the absence of the only doctor assigned for the assessments. This was stated by the socialist parliamentarian for Lanzarote, Lucía Olga Tejera, who affirms that a specialist from Gran Canaria will travel once a week to the island to process the files "in the morning and afternoon".
"This will guarantee the service", said the deputy, who presented a question in Parliament, in which she requested the reinforcement of the dependency assessment team in Lanzarote. Tejera stressed that this measure is "provisional", since she assures that the Ministry of Health is working on the contract of a new specialist who is permanently in Lanzarote, something that she maintains will happen "in a few weeks."
In addition to the doctor who will be on the island one day a week, Tejera has assured that the Government of the Canary Islands will expedite files that do not require a face-to-face assessment. "That procedure will be done in Gran Canaria, and requests for a review of a degree less than two years or applications for aid will be attended to, for example," she explains.
"We have the hope that all those files will be resolved, and that this group can now make use of and benefit from all the rights and any benefit," says the Lanzarote parliamentarian.
"The first thing that people with disabilities need is to be assessed on time. And we hope that provisionally, but the service will be covered," she concluded.
