The mayor of San Bartolomé, Alexis Tejera, and the Councilor for Health, Raúl de León, visited the Playa Honda Clinic this Wednesday with the head of Sanitary Infrastructures of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Bueno, to analyze 'in situ' the possibility of expanding this center.
“It has lacked space and personnel for decades,” they point out from the City Council, which recalls that this clinic belongs to the Arrecife I Basic Zone. In this regard, they emphasize that this zone has a total of 37,000 health cards, of which 12,000 are from Playa Honda, “generating problems for users and health personnel, who are overwhelmed by the excess of work, since the optimal ratio would be 25,000 health cards.”
In the meeting, which was also attended by the area director of Health of Lanzarote, Noelia Umpiérrez, the manager of the Molina Orosa Hospital, José Luis Aparicio, and the medical director of Primary Care, Aniuska Sutil, the mayor also defended the need to implement the new health map, “which would contemplate Playa Honda as a Basic Zone, so it would not depend on Titerroy, and could therefore have more personnel, independence and availability of spaces”.
However, while maintaining that demand, the City Council argues that “until this becomes a reality, decisions must be made on how to implement the current clinic”.
Tejera also reiterated at the meeting the need to agree at the island level on the improvement of the bus service to the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital, highlighting that it is “an important issue and demanded not only from the City Council, but by the neighborhood, in each of the meetings held by the towns of the municipality”.
