CC deputy Oswaldo Betancorth has requested the file for contracting the new building of the Molina Orosa Hospital from the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, as he questions that this 15 million euro project has been awarded "by hand", after declaring it an "emergency work" due to the Covid 19 crisis.
“This distinction allows the Ministry of Health to award the project to the company it considers capable and prestigious to carry out the work, but, despite this, those of us who represent Lanzarote and La Graciosa would like to know more about the details of the file for this contracting, since it is striking not only its rapid awarding and the amount and execution time of the same, but also the lack of solvency that, a priori, the awarded company seems to have, in addition to being awarded at a time when the incidence and hospitalisation data for Covid are decreasing”, questions Betancort.
In this regard, the mayor of Teguise also recalls that the Canarian Health Service resolved to commission the company Terra Obra Civil S.L. to draft the project and execute the works and basic equipment for a hospital building on the plot where the old Emergency car parks of the Hospital were located. According to the Ministry, it is “a large-scale work where 100 hospital beds will be located, necessary to relieve the central building and allocate it to contagious or pandemic diseases".
Betancort states that he wanted to join the "concern also shown by the Association of Constructors of the eastern islands of the Canary Islands, which has also questioned this direct awarding of the works attached to the General Hospital of Lanzarote, which has not gone through the usual public tender procedure due to the emergency, which is why, it has raised many doubts and distrust about the rigour with which the work has been granted”.
