The Minister of Social Welfare of the Government of the Canary Islands, Inés Rojas, stated this Monday in Arrecife that the money contemplated in the Canary Islands Disability Care Plan (660,000 euros per year) is sufficient to manage the Center for Mentally Handicapped in Lanzarote.
Rojas urged the Cabildo, which will receive the work on March 10, to put the management out to tender "as soon as possible" and assured that the money that will be allocated to this center is the same as that allocated to other centers in the Canary Islands with the same capacity.
The counselor thus responded to the statements of the councilor for social affairs of the Cabildo, Joaquín Caraballo, who assures that the annual management of the center will cost about two million euros, according to a study carried out by the Cabildo.
The figures of the Cabildo and the Government do not coincide. While the former considers that it should only pay fifty percent of the social part of the center and the Government the other half plus the health part, the Government says that it must pay half of the management, counting the social and health part.
Figures
In addition, the Cabildo says that the management will cost two million annually (the staff alone would be worth 1,200,000) and that there is now a budget of 965,000. The Government says that the money planned is 660,000 euros, as other centers in the Archipelago operate.
Rojas pointed out that in the event that the Cabildo does not put the center out to tender, the Government will contribute just over 200,000 euros to Adislan so that it can provide extraordinary care to patients on the waiting list, although only as a day center, not residential.
Early Attention
On the other hand, the counselor pointed out that the decree regulating early care for disabled children in the Canary Islands is being drafted and that it is planned to open a center of these characteristics in Lanzarote since there is a demand for about twenty children. For this, about 150,000 euros plus the rent of the premises will be contributed.
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