The deputy of the Socialist Parliamentary Group for Lanzarote, Dolores Corujo, has valued this Tuesday in the Plenary of the regional Chamber the impulse in the elaboration of the Comprehensive Plan for the elderly on the island, which she has described as "pioneering", not only in Lanzarote, but as a model for the rest of the archipelago, attending to the particular needs of each case.
Corujo has intervened during an appearance requested by the Socialist Group to the Ministry of Social Rights on the Comprehensive Plan for the elderly in Lanzarote, to which she has thanked the "effort" and "work" done together with the Island Council to launch this project soon and "reverse" the situation created by previous governments, "which were limited to removing the problem, renouncing the fundamental role of the Administration as guarantor of the personal rights of our dependent people".
The socialist deputy has stated that from Lanzarote they have been working "intensely" with the Ministry of Social Rights "trying to give a definitive boost" to the care of dependent people, coordinating efforts with the Government of the Canary Islands and the municipalities of the island.
In this sense, she has thanked the Regional Ministry for its "commitment" to ensure that the Comprehensive Care Service for Dependency on the Island of Lanzarote (SAIDIL) can begin to provide its services soon. "We are facing a pioneering project, an innovative experience that, after its launch, may serve as a model for other islands."
In addition, she explained that for its implementation an "extraordinary" field work has been carried out, with interviews with practically half of the people who will be served by the new service, "showing that it is a service conceived precisely for people, whose opinion must be taken into account from the first bars, seeking that our services adapt to our people and not fit the most vulnerable people in a previous scheme, without any contrast with reality".
Corujo has emphasized that the goal is to leave the waiting list at zero, "putting an end to an intolerable delay and an unbearable debt with our elders."
She also highlighted as a novelty of the new service its public character and its provision, directly, by the Administration, with services provided directly by the Consortium that is being created between the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Lanzarote, in which it is expected that those municipalities that consider it so can be integrated. "It is an example of the commitment to the direct management of the services with which we serve the most vulnerable people, to guarantee the most rigorous and exhaustive control by the administration, and that we will expand to the rest of the services," Corujo concluded.