The Deputy Secretary of Organization of the Popular Party of Lanzarote, Jonathan de León, harshly criticizes the hypocrisy of the Government of the Canary Islands and, especially, of the Ministry of Social Rights, with respect to the management of the system of protection and care for dependent people in the islands and that "keeps some 25,000 Canarians on a waiting list, either for an assessment of their file or waiting to receive aid that never arrives".
And far from reversing the situation, "in these three years, the PSOE and Podemos government has been fattening the data and aggravating the situation of vulnerability to the point that even the Diputación del Común recognizes that in the Canary Islands the rights of dependent people are being violated."
Jonathan de León assures that the fact that on the islands a dependent person dies every two hours waiting for the help they are entitled to is an "absolute disgrace", and points out that Lanzarote is no stranger to this problem, quite the opposite, "the situation on our island is even much worse", -he acknowledges-, "because we also have a very serious deficit of residential places that shows no sign of being resolved in the short term after the paralysis of the works of the new socio-health care center of Tahíche."
The popular representatives consider that the proposals launched by the councilor Noemí Santana are "mere patches" within the final objective that should be to improve the quality of life of dependent people and their families.
"Dependency has become synonymous with drama," acknowledges the deputy secretary of the PP, who recalls that last year 90 people a day died waiting for dependency, and "if there are no significant changes in management, the data for this 2022 will be much, much worse."
"Cynicism of the PSOE with disability"
From the Popular Party they also question the role and incoherence of the PSOE of Lanzarote that now demand that the Disability assessment team be reinforced on the island when "the socialists have been defending tooth and nail the management of Noemí Santana at the head of Social Rights and even saying that this issue is more or less already resolved and that the criticisms of the PP are gratuitous. That, without ignoring that they are equally responsible for the problems that exist in Dependency and Disability."
A position of support for Santana's disastrous management that was also supported in the recent Debate on the State of the Island by the president of the Cabildo, Dolores Corujo, who is also general secretary of the PSOE. "The hypocrisy and shamelessness of the socialists has no limits," says Jonathan de León, because "they are capable of presenting themselves to the public as victims and executioners at the same time."
Proposals of the Popular Party
The popular representatives defend the need to reformulate the II Plan of Socio-health Infrastructures so that those that already have projects and available land are incorporated or to increase the economic benefits for dependent people, a measure that was approved unanimously but has not yet been carried out.
De León also emphasizes that two years ago, the Popular Party also proposed the creation of a specific employment plan for Dependency, with agreements with town councils and island councils, Nursing, Medicine and Social Work associations, with a financial sheet and with the aim of determining the number of professionals needed for each municipality and thus reduce the deadlines for evaluation reports and waiting lists, and no attention was paid to it either.
"The inability of the Podemos councilor to manage dependency is evident and no matter how many economic and human resources are put within her reach, she is not able to improve the results," explains the popular deputy secretary, who accuses Noemí Santana of breaking the social shield that should protect the most vulnerable.
