"Users of the Yaiza health center, two doctors, two nurses and two administrative staff have a small and precarious space with a single bathroom for women and men in a building where the facade serves as a waiting room and health workers are forced to place a screen to attend emergencies without any privacy, these are some of the shortcomings that the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, was able to verify in situ this Friday at the invitation of the Mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda", they report from the Consistory. Noda asked the highest authority of the regional Executive to execute the improvement and expansion works of the center for which the City Council has ceded an adjoining premises of 230 square meters. Fernando Clavijo, in the presence of the President of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, assured Óscar Noda that the works will be put out to tender without fail during this month of February.
The tour of public representatives through the town of Yaiza continued at the town's school, pending the execution project of two classrooms that the Government had promised to tender last summer. The CEIP Yaiza has 625 students divided into 12 groups. "A barrack currently houses two classes, which shows the need for new classrooms and other conditioned spaces to develop activities typical of an educational center. The CEIP Yaiza, for example, does not have a teachers' room, so they have to meet in the library or in the jellyfish room," the mayor explained to the President of the Canary Islands.
Thanking the collaboration of the Yaiza City Council to improve basic services, Fernando Clavijo agreed "to update the infrastructures according to population growth. At the CEIP Yaiza, the mayor has asked us to build classrooms and change all the old and deteriorated carpentry, also with the possibility of covering the court." Oscar Noda also raised the construction of new classrooms in the Uga school.
The parliamentarian Gladys Acuña, present at the visit, has taken several initiatives to the regional Chamber related to these and other infrastructures of the municipality, such as the state of execution of the works of the port of Playa Blanca and the secondary school in the same town, issues that were also claimed by the mayor of Yaiza in the meeting after the tour held at the Casa de la Cultura Benito Pérez Armas.
Another matter of concern for the Yaiza City Council is the situation of the immigrant minors housed by the Island Council in a house located in the town of Yaiza that, in light of municipal reports, does not meet optimal living conditions. "Yaiza does not refuse to collaborate, far from it, being a municipality that has always demonstrated its solidarity and willingness to welcome, but the truth is that now there are fifteen minors living there and if anything, there could be six. We ask the Government and the Cabildo to study ways of solution so that the children can live together in adequate conditions."
In the meeting at the Casa de la Cultura, in addition to delving into issues related to the visited sites, Óscar Noda demanded Fernando Clavijo and his work team to speed up the execution of two strategic projects for Yaiza, such as the expansion of the port of Playa Blanca and the secondary school (CEO) of Playa Blanca.
"The expansion of the port is financed 85 percent by Europe and 15 percent by the Autonomous Community. Both the parliamentarian Gladys Acuña and I have not tired of warning about compliance with the execution deadlines so as not to run any risk of losing European funds, in such a way that we ask the president for urgency in the works," added the mayor. According to the public commitment of Fernando Clavijo verbalized in January of last year, Playa Blanca and Lanzarote will have, at the latest, a new operational port in November 2021 with the capacity to dock cruise ships, a scenario that would redound to the economy of Playa Blanca, the municipality and the island of Lanzarote.
The mayor of Yaiza in that same direction urged the Executive to comply with the works of the CEO Playa Blanca "since we know that they have been paralyzed." Óscar Noda recalled that "the City Council opportunely ceded 12,000 square meters to alleviate the CEIP and so that our young people can continue their ESO studies in Playa Blanca without having to move to the current IES located on the border with the municipality of Tías." In October 2017, in the symbolic act of laying the first stone, the Government guaranteed that the works would be completed in the summer of this 2019.
The President of the Canary Islands was accompanied in Yaiza by Conrado Domínguez, director of the Canarian Health Service; Erasmo García, island director of Health; Manuel Ortega, managing director of Puertos Canarios; Mario Pérez, island director of Education, and Carmen Morales, director of Child Protection, in addition to Government technicians. The first deputy mayor, Daniel Medina; the Councilor for Education, Manuela Rodríguez; and the Councilor for Health and Social Services, Marcial Viñoly, participated in the meeting for Yaiza.
