The Teguise City Council, as stated in the Public Sector Contracting Platform, awarded the provision of the home help service for the municipality to the entity Formas Nivaria S.L. on May 8, for a period of 2 years (plus one extension) and for a budget of 345,000 euros.
“The new tender will provide important support to the Social Welfare area of Teguise, which will now have new healthcare professionals who will assist the elderly and beneficiaries of the service in their own homes, as demanded by many families in the municipality,” said the mayor, Oswaldo Betancort.
The mayor congratulated the Contracting area of Teguise, which “in coordination with the technical team of Social Welfare, have managed to carry out an essential contract for the family reconciliation of many citizens of Teguise, and they have done so in a time of pandemic with the difficulties and extra effort that this has entailed." He also praised “the work of all the staff of the department, who have attended to so many neighbors in very delicate situations.”
“The new contract will provide care in the home, through specific interventions that favor the permanence of the person cared for in their usual environment and compensate for the decrease in their functional autonomy,” explained the Councilor for Social Welfare, Isidro Alonso.
“The service will include support for travel that guarantees access to social services, in addition to home help, which involves personal and domestic care and attention that may be preventive, care or rehabilitative in nature, aimed at individuals, families or groups, to prevent or, where appropriate, delay admission to a center or to intervene in situations of psycho-family conflict,” added Alonso.
“It is a fact that the number of elderly people continues to increase in the municipality of Teguise and, therefore, we must also increase the investment destined to their care and continue to strengthen the social area, and in this case, the new specifications will reinforce the service that already operates, allowing us to absorb the increasing demand,” concluded the councilor.