The Cabildo has announced, through a statement, that the Government of Canaruas will assume "entirely" the management of the Insular Hospital and that it will do so at the beginning of 2018. The institution has made this announcement after a meeting that the president, Pedro San Ginés, and the Minister of Health, Juan Manuel Sosa, held with the director of the Canary Islands Health Service, Conrado Domínguez, with the island director of the Health Area, Erasmo García, and with the manager of the Lanzarote Health Area, Raúl Otín.
During the meeting, various aspects of the agreement between the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Lanzarote were specified, "in which they had been working intensely since the incorporation of the new Minister of the area, José Manuel Baltar, for the integration of the Insular Hospital into the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS)", they have highlighted from the Cabildo.
After this meeting, in which they affirm that "almost all the details of the agreement" have been outlined, they are "only waiting to proceed with the updating of the list of personnel, the healthcare offer, which is perhaps the most complex part, and the inventory of movable and immovable property that will be transferred to the SCS." "Once these data are finalized, the Government foresees that the signing of the agreement will be formalized at the beginning of next year so that the integration will be effective in 2018", they affirm from the institution.
San Ginés assures that the assumption of personnel "will be complete"
"For the peace of mind of the entire staff", the president of the Cabildo assures that the conditions are, in his opinion, "extraordinary and no labor conflict is foreseeable to the extent that the assumption of personnel will be complete, in such a way that, in principle, all personnel will be assumed, except those who are considered exclusive to the attached residence for the elderly, with the legal regime and conditions they currently have." "Once they are on the SCS payroll, an offer of integration into the SCS statutory personnel will be made, which will be voluntary for those workers who understand that this integration is convenient for them because it represents an improvement in their working conditions. The rest will maintain the conditions (regime and agreement) that they currently have with the Cabildo", he added.
"With the signing of this agreement, the island of Lanzarote will see a historical demand satisfied that we have been demanding from the Government of the Canary Islands for decades, and that is why I can only congratulate and thank the president of the Autonomous Executive, Fernando Clavijo, for fulfilling the commitment - which he publicly acquired in the electoral campaign - giving the precise instructions from the beginning of the mandate to the Minister of Health, although it has not been until the arrival of José Manuel Baltar when the reins of this complex integration have been taken with determination and the definitive impulse that that directive required has been given, so I extend my congratulations to both the Minister and his entire team", concluded San Ginés