The deputy for Lanzarote and La Graciosa and island president of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-bc), Yoné Caraballo, together with the health councilor of the Haría City Council and local spokesperson for the same political formation, Marcos Lemes, have denounced "the deficiencies in health services suffered by the northern region of the island".
This was expressed by Yoné Caraballo, who points to the autonomous government of the Canarian Coalition (CC) and Popular Party (PP) as "responsible for a substantial setback in the investments planned to improve public health in the north of Lanzarote, a region where the longevity index is the highest on the entire island and many of its residents have difficulty traveling to the health centers of Arrecife in an emergency situation."
“The northern region of Lanzarote ranges from the towns of El Mojón, Guatiza and Cocoteros in the municipality of Teguise, the entire municipality of Haría and La Graciosa. We are talking about more than 20,000 health cards plus the floating population of tourists that is increasing due to the rise of rural and vacation tourism, and the visits that the eighth island receives every day,” says Caraballo, who sees that this “assistance burden cannot be assumed by the current infrastructures and health services available in the north, the only northern region in all of the Canary Islands that does not have a 24-hour Continuous Care Point.”
To this "discrimination", says the deputy, “is added the elimination of 1.5 million euros to improve the Mala Health Center that were incorporated in the current 2024 budgets and that will not be executed.”
For his part, Councilor Marcos Lemes says that “it seems that the residents of Haría are third-class citizens since we are sold out to any emergency that may happen to us and, instead of advancing in improvements, what this government of CC and PP has done is take away our care capacity.”
Lemes speaks of the situation they suffer in the Haría Clinic with obsolete infrastructures and scarce human resources. “It cannot be that a patient in the municipality does not have continuous care with the same doctor,” the councilor remarks, who “considers that Haría is the great mistreated by the Cabildo and the autonomous government, leaving its population with problems of running water and with health services at the limit.”
He also denounces "the lie of CC in Haría announcing 'with great fanfare' the items to improve the Mala Health Center and that now that they are not executed and there is no investment planned for 2025, they are silent."
With everything, from NC-bc "they are going to try to correct this grievance with the northern region, presenting several amendments to the budget aimed at recovering the 1.5 million euros for the Mala Health Center; and another to improve the infrastructures of the Haría Clinic."