Members of Aculanza have decided to create a new association that, under the name of Association of Patients and Users of Health and Social Healthcare, aims to fight for the defense of the patient and the improvement of healthcare in Lanzarote.
"We see that Lanzarote is very neglected at the health level from previous legislatures. For 25 years we have had an autonomous government of CC that has left Lanzarote in mistreatment and humiliation and in the tail end of healthcare in the Canary Islands," said Fidel Ascensión, president of this new association.
In this sense, Ascensión has pointed out that he believes that there is "a deficit, a health underfunding" and, therefore, he has indicated that the main flag of the Association of Patients and Users of Health and Social Healthcare will be to demand a new hospital.
"Because the current one is small, obsolete, and that has to sink into the consciousness of the political class in Lanzarote," said the president of this new association, who believes that it is necessary to "mobilize and react against a political class that has abandoned us to the capital islands, both Lanzarote and La Graciosa."
"Bring together" and "promote that the axis of the health system will be the user"
In addition, although there are already associations on the island that fight for the rights of patients with certain diseases, as is the case of the Association of Oncohematological Families of Lanzarote (Afol), the objective of the Association of Patients and Users of Health and Social Healthcare is to "bring together" and "promote that the axis of the health system is the user.
For all this is why, as Fidel Ascensión explained, it has been decided to constitute this new association, which already has its board of directors formed and has already started the procedures for its registration in the Government of the Canary Islands.
"We are talking about it taking about a month or a month and a half, but that does not prevent us from already fighting," said the president of the Association of Patients and Users of Health and Social Healthcare, who explained that they will create social networks, a website, a blog and contact telephones so that citizens can contact them and that "in principle" they will work "with premises ceded by town halls or Cabildo."
