"Barely a week after the Cabildo announced that the agreement with the Canary Islands Health Service for the integration of the Insular Hospital would be signed at the beginning of the year, the Government of the Canary Islands shies away from any temporary commitment on the matter." This is what the Popular Party has denounced after the Health Commission held this Tuesday in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
"In response to a question from the Popular Party, Councilor José Manuel Baltar has avoided giving a date for the integration of the center," the formation points out in a statement, in which it emphasizes that this contrasts with the announcement made just a few days ago by the Island Corporation chaired by Pedro San Ginés.
The regional parliamentarian and president of the Lanzarote Popular Party, Astrid Pérez, has pointed out that Baltar "has simply limited himself to saying what the citizens have been hearing since the last legislature", that is, "that progress is being made in the commitment acquired with Brigida Mendoza but has not indicated any date at all, much less the first months of the year, as the president of the Cabildo has done".
"That is what we would all like and we trust that the integration will be definitively closed and become a reality in 2018, but with the background that we already have of the commitments of CC in the electoral period, it is evident that it does not reassure that the counselor to whom San Ginés attributes all the merits and congratulations has not wanted to make any type of forecast in this regard", says Pérez.
"After two decades waiting for the Government of the Canary Islands to assume its powers and with them the management of the Insular Hospital, the least that the people of Lanzarote deserve is for CC to lie to them again and repeat the breach. The refusal of the Minister of Health to specify possible dates to complete this entire process leads us to the fact that, as of today, the only thing we continue to have regarding the Insular Hospital are the same promises that CC and the Socialist Party have been making to us for 20 years", questions the popular parliamentarian.
