The Popular Party group in the Arrecife City Council affirms that "the Argana Alta Health Center, despite being programmed and budgeted by the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands with an item of 2,080,000 euros, is still waiting, since the City Council has not ceded the necessary land for its construction".
The popular representatives have asked the capital's mayor, Enrique Pérez Parrilla, about the reasons for the delay in the transfer of these lands and regret that the corporation has not ceded to the Ministry the committed premises, in the Municipal Sports Palace of Argana Alta, to house the local office of said neighborhood. According to the popular representatives, the Lanzarote Health Area "has everything ready to put the Argana Baja Office into operation, once the City Council hands over the premises".
As highlighted by the popular councilor, Lorenzo Lemaur, "the apathy and neglect of the current government group of Arrecife is causing a neighborhood like Argana Alta, which currently has around 9,000 residents, not to have a Health Center or office, in addition to other deficiencies".
In addition, Lemaur echoes the complaints of the residents of Argana Alta who criticize the state of abandonment in which the playground located next to the Municipal Sports Palace is found. According to the popular councilor, "the residents complain about the lack of surveillance and the deplorable state of the park, whose equipment is deteriorated and full of graffiti".
On the other hand, the City Council has not enabled the space reserved on the ground floor of the Sports Palace to locate the Argana Baja Social Center. For Lorenzo Lemaur, this can only be understood by "the total apathy and ineptitude of the PIL and PSOE government, which are incapable of meeting the most basic demands of the residents".
It should also be remembered that the Popular Party already proposed in its amendment to the Corporation's budget for the current year an item destined for the construction of the Argana Alta Sociocultural Center, providing it with an assembly hall, library and rooms so that residents can develop workshops or other activities.
Lemaur believes that "the balanced growth of our city depends on providing the neighborhoods with the necessary infrastructure and treating them the same as the city center". According to the popular councilor, if these provisions are not made "in the neighborhoods of Arrecife, coexistence, integration, security will continue to deteriorate, in addition to the fact that its residents feel that they are not part of the city".
