The deputy for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Oswaldo Betancort, has once again asked the Government of the Canary Islands for explanations regarding "the lack of knowledge of the status of the contracting of the Lanzarote Senior Residence", whose construction began almost a year and a half ago, but was paralyzed.
The mayor of Teguise also recalls that the project started when his City Council ceded the plot in 2018, after obtaining an investment of 19 million euros, "the result of the commitment of the previous president of the Regional Executive, Fernando Clavijo, and the former president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés."
“Since then, as the years and life have passed for so many families with dependent people at home, we still do not know what the present and future of socio-health management on the island will be”, laments Oswaldo Betancort. “A new course begins and nobody has any news since the first stone was laid on May 4, 2021 in an inaugural act, with presidents from here and there, councilors from one side and the other, all of them, disappeared and in absolute silence as of today.”
“It is my duty to reformulate the same question before the Upper House, and I will not tire of insisting on knowing how that contract will be resolved, which is not a minor work, but a vital and priority issue for Lanzarote and La Graciosa”, Betancort assures.
“I already formally requested a meeting with the president of the Cabildo, because the Minister of the Government of the Canary Islands herself pointed out from her platform that it was not her responsibility, but that of María Dolores Corujo, and I am still waiting for the second stone to be moved on that land ceded by the City Council that I preside over”, he pointed out.
The deputy has reiterated the figures that make "it urgent to build a center that will already be born obsolete, since the island has an offer of 227 places in residences, and with the construction of the residence in Tahiche there would be 180 more, which would still not solve the problem of high and growing demand.”
In addition, he emphasizes that Lanzarote is the fourth island in relation to socio-health places, behind Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Palma, despite the fact that "it has about 19,000 people over 65 years of age and it is expected that in 10 years this figure will double, which makes early planning necessary and urgent."
