The deputies of Nueva Canarias (NC) for Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, Natalia Santana and Yoné Caraballo respectively, denounce what they consider a "new discrimination" against the population of the “yellow islands” by the Government of the Canary Islands.
They refer to the demanded Mental Health Unit in the Emergency Rooms of the hospitals of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, which was proposed in October of last year by Yoné Caraballo through a Non-Law Proposal in the Parliament of the Canary Islands and rejected by the political parties that support the government, that is, CC, PP, ASG and AHI.
According to Yoné Caraballo, a nurse by profession who has been demanding for some years "improvements in mental health care" for the people of the Canary Islands, “almost a year later, what was rejected for the yellow islands is today a reality in the University Hospital of the Canary Islands in Tenerife”. The Lanzarote deputy continues that “he is pleased that the population of Tenerife sees its portfolio of health services increased with this new Mental Health Unit, but considers that both Lanzarote and Fuerteventura lack a minimum service in emergency rooms to treat these patients, being placed in rooms together with patients with other pathologies that for security should not coincide”.
For Natalia Santana, “this new discrimination against Lanzarote and Fuerteventura adds to other grievances that this conservative government of CC and PP has had with the population of both islands, such as the exclusion in the 20-cent bonus for fuel; the PP's commitment with the connivance of CC to drill the soil of Fuerteventura to extract rare earths; or the very poor insularized investment for Lanzarote in the latest budgets of the Canary Islands”.
With everything, from NC they will continue demanding the provision in the emergency rooms of the hospitals of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote of Mental Health units that help improve a service that is increasingly in demand, and where professionals are overwhelmed by lacking tools, rooms and on-call psychiatrists.