The deputy of the Socialist Parliamentary Group for Lanzarote, Marcos Hernández, has denounced this Tuesday [10] in the Plenary of the regional Chamber the "null real commitment" of the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands to carry out the reform of the current island Hospital and guarantee healthcare continuity for the island's citizensHernández intervened in a question from the Socialist Group to the Minister of Health about the eventual transfer of patients from the Insular Hospital of Lanzarote to the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital, and has described the great work of the healthcare staff that the Insular Hospital has provided throughout its career as "unquestionable"For the socialist deputy, it is a hospital "that has become a pioneer in the comprehensive care of the elderly patient, having a complementary character with respect to the Molina Orosa Hospital, focusing on geriatric care that allows not having to duplicate services".Hernández claimed "a firm budgetary commitment" from the Ministry of Health to address and face the reforms that the property needs, in the same way that in 1990 another reform was carried out where new outpatient clinics were created, the Medium and Long-Term Stay Unit was reformed, the Geriatric Day Hospital or the newly built conference room, "allowing with all of this that we were accredited in the year 2000 as a teaching unit."For the socialist deputy, it is "inconceivable" that after so many years trying to integrate the Insular Hospital into the Canary Islands Health Service, the result of the work of different political forces, "now some are neglecting it and leaving the continuity of care at the Insular Hospital up in the air".Hernández criticized the "uncertain words" of the Minister of Health when asked in the regional Parliament, taking refuge in the fact that nothing was done in the previous legislature for the maintenance of the Insular HospitalIn this regard, he recalled that, thanks to the work of the previous government of the Pacto de las Flores, the Functional Plan currently exists, "which in no case, not even remotely, called into question the care role that the entire group of workers and professionals who make up the human capital of the Insular Hospital should continue to exercise".
“It is at these moments and with the change of government where both Coalición Canaria and Partido Popular have sown uncertainty, opacity, and the use of a double rhetorical language to hide their true intentions,” he affirmed
In Hernández's opinion, the counselor had a "magnificent" opportunity in the Plenary to clear up the most relevant doubts, such as the budgetary allocation she plans to incorporate to face the necessary reforms in the infrastructure of the Insular Hospital, or to ensure that patients will return to the Insular Hospital after the temporary transfer that would be made to the Emerging Diseases Building, once the necessary works in the Insular Hospital are finished
“None of those reasonable doubts have been answered; what’s more, they have been avoided in a sort of forward flight that generates even more uncertainty. The least that should be demanded of public management is a gesture of transparency by obligation, and incidentally overcome the short-termism in which this government has been situated for a long time,” he denounced.
“From the Socialist Group we will continue working and carrying out our oversight work with the shared objective of continuing to provide that magnificent care work in the geriatric field of an Insular Hospital with 75 years of history,” he concluded.