The NC candidates for the Senate and the Congress of Deputies for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Belén Machín and Carmen Gámiz respectively, visited the headquarters of the Mental Health Association "El Cribo" last Friday morning to hold a working meeting with its Board of Directors.
In it, the Canarian nationalists conveyed the will of their formation to incorporate into the "Canarian Agenda" that they will defend in Madrid, the relevance of mental and emotional health as fundamental elements for the well-being of the Canarians, especially in the childhood and youth stage.
Thus, NC intends to demand that the next Government of Spain that emanates from the elections of July 23 take concrete measures in emotional care. Demands such as reinforcing school health education programs, offering proximity care such as crisis intervention teams, home hospitalization, psychogeriatric care at home in collaboration with the City Councils, and greater provision of social health places for the development of autonomy and personal and social recovery from the most serious mental disorders, as well as a greater budgetary allocation from the State to the Autonomous Communities in this matter.
For Belén Machín "the objective of the Canarian representatives in Madrid is to ensure that all problems are visualized, defended and solved, both those that have to do with our economic and fiscal rights, and those that affect us as a postmodern society".
"The emotional state of the Canarians is also an issue that we must prioritize in Madrid. The pandemic, work stress, family reconciliation or climate anxiety have affected the population, generating a public health problem of the first order", comments Machín, who considers that "the Canarian nationalists will support all the measures that are necessary to reverse the prevailing social model that generates stress and anxiety".
For her part, Carmen Gámiz points out that the Canary Islands maintains "a worrying suicide rate" that has worsened since the end of the pandemic.
"Lanzarote is the island where the number of suicides has increased the most. We must analyze the causes that are leading a sector of the resident population to have this type of behavior", reflects Gámiz, who continues arguing that "behind the official data there is a reality that is not seen and that is much more worrying than we can imagine"
