The PSOE of Lanzarote has registered initiatives in all institutions, town halls, the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Parliament of the Canary Islands, as part of its institutional offensive to defend the permanence of the Insular Hospital and guarantee its continuity as a specialized public health resource.
The PSOE of Lanzarote thus promotes a coordinated institutional action in the face of the "uncertainty" generated about the future of the center, after the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, acknowledged in the last Plenary Session the absence of concrete planning for its reform and continuity.
In the case of city councils, the motions propose that municipal plenary sessions urge the Cabildo of Lanzarote to take an active stance in the defense of the hospital and to demand guarantees from the Government of the Canary Islands to maintain its permanence. For their part, the initiatives registered in the Cabildo and in the Parliament of the Canary Islands seek to ensure institutional commitment to the continuity of the center as a geriatric hospital within the public system.
The general secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote and deputy in Congress, María Dolores Corujo, has underlined that the debate transcends simple reform works and directly affects the island's health model.
“Oswaldo Betancort clearly acknowledges that neither a project nor a financial allocation exists for the reform. Without a project or financing, the only reality is uncertainty about its future.
“The refusal to guarantee the reopening of the Hospital Insular means, de facto, assuming its definitive closure.”
The Cabildo has a historical responsibility to the island Hospital
Corujo insisted that the Insular Hospital constitutes a strategic and unique resource in the Canary Islands: “What is at stake is not a building, but the continuity of the only geriatric hospital in the Canary Islands and of a specialized care model that for decades has guaranteed dignified and adapted care for the elderly”.
From the PSOE they recall that the Insular Hospital was born as a resource of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and that the insular institution maintains a historical responsibility in its defense.
“The Cabildo cannot limit itself to transferring patients without explaining what will happen next. Lanzarote needs clear guarantees to protect its geriatric hospital and ensure it will continue to provide the service for which it was created.”
The socialists warn that the absence of planning, defined financing, and express commitment to reopening as a geriatric hospital poses a real risk of losing the specialized care model.
Therefore, the registered motions demand express guarantees of continuity, maintenance of specialized services, transparent planning, and defined funding that ensures the future of the center.
“Taking care of those who have contributed the most to this society is not a political option, it is an institutional and moral obligation. Lanzarote deserves to keep its Insular Hospital and we are going to defend it in all institutions,” concluded María Dolores Corujo.
