The Lanzarote parliamentarian and island president of the PP, Astrid Pérez, has described the situation in the Canary Islands, and in particular in Lanzarote, with the management of dependency, as "third-world" and has demanded the "immediate and urgent" hiring of a new doctor to avoid "the total collapse of the system on the island."
Pérez has raised this demand to the Government of the Canary Islands after the public complaint collected last week in La Voz, of a married couple who have been waiting almost a year just for the medical assessment to be able to benefit from the aid included in the Dependency Law.
The popular deputy denounces "the serious problems that have been registered on the island for several months due to the absence of one of the two doctors" who carry out these patient assessments, and that "are essential to continue with the procedures" established by the Law, for which she demands the hiring of another doctor.
According to the PP in a statement, Ástrid Pérez and the spokesperson for the PP in the Social Rights Commission of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Poli Suárez, visited some of the families "who are being victims of the chaos that has been occurring for months" this Monday morning.
“If we were already accumulating a regrettable delay in the declarations of dependency, the fact that there is only one doctor further aggravates the situation because the files are stopped from the origin,” explains Astrid Pérez, who emphasizes that Canarians "already have to wait an average of 943 days for dependency."
For his part, the parliamentary spokesperson has insisted on the "manifest inability of the Ministry of Social Rights to manage dependency in the islands, which has caused the Canary Islands to remain at the bottom of the country in this matter."
“Unfortunately, the case of Lanzarote is not an exception,” he said, recalling that “last year there were 25,600 Canarians on the islands in the middle of the bureaucratic maze of the Ministry, just over 15,700 waiting for an assessment and 9,950 waiting to receive aid.”
In addition, the populars affirm that "the most serious thing of all is the more than 1,500 people who have died while on the terrible waiting lists."
