The Island Executive Committee of the PSOE of Lanzarote, meeting last Thursday in Playa Honda, agreed to demand that the President of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, "immediately lift the blockade to which the Government of the Canary Islands has subjected the expansion of the Playa Honda Health Center." They assert that "this is not a minor procedure: it is a health priority for thousands of health cards in an area of strong demographic growth."
"The island needs certainties and deadlines. We ask Oswaldo Betancort to act as president of all Lanzarote residents, also in the municipalities governed by the PSOE, and to unblock the expansion of the Playa Honda Health Center now. Instead of defending Lanzarote, he has preferred to go to the Parliament of the Canary Islands to do the work for the councilor, even describing the action as a 'macro-project' and whitewashing the abandonment of the Government of the Canary Islands with this island," said the island's general secretary, María Dolores Corujo.
The PSOE emphasizes that "the expansion will allow more consultations, more professionals, and better healthcare spaces, strengthening family and pediatric care, improving emergency services, and relieving pressure on the basic health zone."
Corujo also denounces "the current Cabildo government's management deficit": "They haven't launched a single new project so far this term, and they've also stalled others that Ángel Víctor Torres and María Dolores Corujo had prepared to move forward," she adds.
Support for San Bartolomé for the Municipal Cooperation Plans
In the same session, the Island Executive Committee agreed to support the mayor of San Bartolomé, Isidro Pérez, in the appeal filed to restore "fair and stable" funding for the Municipal Cooperation Plans.
The PSOE argues that these funds "are essential to ensure balanced investments in neighborhoods and towns and demands that the Cabildo rectify and recover a transparent, predictable framework of cooperation with objective criteria.""Defending the Cooperation Plans is defending equal opportunities between municipalities. We demand an immediate solution that prevents halting basic projects for people's daily lives," concluded María Dolores Corujo.
