The Cabildo of Lanzarote has announced the recovery of ten million euros of financial file to carry out the Tahíche Senior Residence. This was reported by the highest island institution in a statement.
President Oswaldo Betancort had sealed this commitment with the Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Childhood and Families of the Government of the Canary Islands, Candelaria Delgado, during her first official visit to the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
"First of all, I would like to thank the Minister and her entire team for their closeness, because we needed the commitment of the Government of the Canary Islands to strengthen the new model that is being developed in Lanzarote to care for the most vulnerable people," said the president of the Island Corporation.
In that sense, Oswaldo Betancort stressed the importance of not endangering the economic investment for the Tahíche Senior Residence, "which was left out to tender and they had four years to lay the first stone and did nothing else, so at the beginning of this term we had to return six million euros," lamented the president, assuring that "after this first contact with the area led by Candelaria Delgado, we have been able to start the commitment to allocate 10 million euros for that specific purpose."
Expand health infrastructures
"In addition, we have discussed the agenda and roadmap to be followed by the island councilor for the area, Marci Acuña, such as expanding the network of health infrastructures on the island of Lanzarote, for now with 80 new places, strengthening the home help service, promoting a care and leisure plan specially designed for our elders, and we have also talked about youth and their demands, as well as immigration," he said in a statement.
"At this moment, we are the gateway to Europe, and the terrible migratory phenomenon that we are suffering, requires an immediate response, not only from the Canarian Government, but from the one who really has the competence, which is the Spanish State," added the president of the Cabildo.
"In short, I have to make a very positive assessment of this meeting because I am convinced that, in a very short time, we will see how all the projects in the area of Social Welfare, will materialize with the sole objective of increasing the quality of life of the resident of Lanzarote and La Graciosa after a very hard stage in history as was the pandemic," concluded Betancort.
The Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Childhood and Families, Candelaria Delgado, announced that she will initially have 9,063,965 euros for the creation of some 80 new places for the care of people in situations of dependency and people with disabilities on the Island. This investment is made according to the distribution of funds among the councils of the axis of "Economy of Care and reinforcement of equality and inclusion policies" of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Fund of Spain, whose destination is the creation of new places and expansion of the endowment of resources for the care of the network of social health centers.
Candelaria Delgado said, after meeting with the President of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, that "this is the initial proposal that we have designed from the technical meetings that, previously, have been held with the team of Lanzarote to define the needs and the best location of each place but, of course, we will continue with the meetings to adjust the number of places and analyze the specific needs of the island." "Our challenge is that before the end of the year the agreements that regulate this distribution with each of the councils can be signed and we can begin to realize the places that we have set on paper," he added.