The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, has stated this Thursday that the institution is willing to assume the cost of the rehabilitation works of the Insular Hospital, so that it can be integrated into the Canarian Health Service. This was stated at the press conference offered together with the Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Manuel Baltar, with whom he held a meeting to address this and other issues.
In his appearance, Baltar referred to the reform that the Hospital needs, whose works should "coexist" with the usual activity of the center, as he detailed. And to this, San Ginés responded by stating that if the problem is financing, the island institution could assume it.
However, the Canarian Minister has referred to another problem, that of financing. And the hospital is currently financed by the Cabildo of Lanzarote, by the Government of the Canary Islands and by the central Government, to a lesser extent. Therefore, Baltar pointed out that it is necessary to study the formula so as not to lose the contribution made by the central Administration if the hospital center were to be integrated into the Canarian Health Service. "We have to work to make the absorption viable," the Minister said at a press conference.
For his part, San Ginés recalled that the negotiation process for the integration of this Hospital into the Canarian Health Service began in 1998 and that in these almost two decades various commissions have been created for this purpose "without any result". The last one, before the last elections, when it was announced that the integration would be effective in the last quarter of 2016. Now, about to enter the third month of 2017, the president says that this process must be reactivated and that integration cannot be renounced.
Between March 2 and 6
What there is a date for is the start of the works in the Surgery Unit of the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital. This has been another of the issues reported by the Minister of Health, who explained that they will begin between March 2 and 6.
The works to be carried out are aimed at meeting the needs for improvement in the plant, both those related to functional and comfort aspects, and those related to updating the facilities. The plant, which will be used for the hospitalization of General Surgery, has an area of 841.50 square meters, which will be distributed in 25 double rooms with bathroom and their respective supports and work areas for staff.
The works will be carried out by the company FCC Industrial e Infraestructuras SAU, for an amount of 653,493.30 euros and will have an execution period of six months.
Regarding other actions in the field of health planned on the island, Baltar has also explained that the Ministry is processing the file for the contracting and installation this year of a magnetic resonance equipment for the José Molina Orosa Hospital.
