Given the lack of endocrine specialists at the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital, the Thyroid (ASTICA) and Diabetes (ADILA) patient associations set themselves the goal, after the incorporation of the endocrinologist, to reduce the waiting lists for the specialist, which in many cases were more than two years. Thus, after the incorporation of the new Director of Health on the island, María José Costa, who occupied the vacant position left by José Manuel Sosa, the demands were raised to her.
Now, from the Association of Thyroid Patients of the Canary Islands (ASTICA), chaired by María Rosario González Perdomo, they are pleased that both the area director, María José Costa, and the regional head of Health, Mercedes Roldós, listened to the requests and committed to ensuring that the waiting lists were eliminated.
"For the first time in the history of the José Molina Orosa Hospital, we have three endocrinologists", the association reports. And for this reason, they wanted to publicly thank "all the anonymous people who supported us in our struggle", in which, among other actions, they managed to gather a total of 2,700 signatures demanding more specialists.
In Lanzarote there are 8,000 people affected by diabetes, according to the calculations of these associations, although according to the data held by Adila, forty percent of diabetics do not know they are, and of the remaining sixty percent, a quarter are not informed enough to have the disease under control.
