Somos Lanzarote has shown its concern for "the situation of absolute abandonment to which the Cabildo of Lanzarote, governed by Coalición Canaria, PSOE and PIL, submits the Insular Hospital." In the opinion of the political organization, this Government is showing "its inability" to provide a solution to the hospital center that, they have stressed, "is suffering from the stagnation of negotiations with the Canary Islands Health Service, due to labor conflicts, in addition to the structural deficiencies of the hospital space." From Somos they have pointed out that this adds to "the recent elimination of the gynecology service that was being provided in its facilities, as part of the service portfolio."
Faced with this situation, according to what they have reported, last week they requested "in writing" the holding of "a monographic commission that the councilor of the area, José Juan Cruz, has been promising since before Christmas, on the complicated situation that the Insular Hospital is experiencing." Commission in which Somos Lanzarote considers that, in addition to the political groups, "the representatives of the professionals who work at the center must be present." At the same time, they have requested Cruz's appearance in the next plenary session of the island institution.
They have also stated that for more than a month different political groups have been urging "on the need to address problems that seem bogged down, that are neither solved nor is any progress reported. Stagnation and abandonment is the general tone towards the Hospital."
The "formal integration" was agreed for the last quarter of 2016
From Somos Lanzarote they have recalled that the agreement signed in May 2015, before the last municipal elections, between the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, and the then Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Brígida Mendoza, established that by now the Insular Hospital should already be integrated into the Canary Islands Health Service.
Specifically, from Somos Lanzarote, the last quarter of 2016 was the date agreed for the "formal integration" of the Insular Hospital, "but we have reached 2017 and no one reports any progress in this claim," they lamented. In the opinion of Somos, "an agreement between administrations cannot be water under the bridge or the excuse to take an electoral photo; it is an agreement that must be fulfilled, and the Cabildo has to explain what it is doing to demand what was signed."
For the political formation it is also "shameful" that the island Government "continues to look the other way in the face of the labor conflict due to the breach of the agreements signed with the Hospital workers regarding their salary equalization with the health professionals of the rest of the Canary Islands." In this line they have affirmed that "the agreement is breached, what was signed is breached, plenary agreements are breached, and now, that a concentration is called every day at the doors of the Hospital, it seems that it is not with them."
Future of the center's service portfolio
On the other hand, and with respect to the gynecology and family planning service, the spokesperson and councilor of Somos Lanzarote in the Cabildo, Tomás López, has stated that it has not been reported whether "it disappears permanently from the Hospital or if work is being done on the recovery of a service that had wide demand."
He also clarified that, precisely, gynecology and family planning "were part of the services that had to be negotiated with the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands for its integration." In the next plenary session, Somos Lanzarote has advanced that it will be interested in the future of the entire portfolio of services offered by the Insular Hospital.
