The PSOE of Lanzarote has celebrated the launch of the 'Hemodynamic Cardiology Unit' of the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital, a project that was planned and executed in the past term under the coordination of President María Dolores Corujo and the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The island secretary of the PSOE in Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, has expressed "her pride" in the implementation of a service that "settles a historical debt in healthcare on the island, responding to a demand from more than 1,200 patients from Lanzarote and La Graciosa, which until now kept us in a state of precariousness, forcing patients to travel to Gran Canaria to undergo surgery.”
“We have fulfilled a fair demand that will address a basic service on which many lives depend, and we have managed to respond to urgent and necessary situations in healthcare that had been paralyzed for more than a decade,” Corujo added, recalling that it was “during the past term” that “the civil works of the radiotherapy bunker of the Molina Orosa Hospital were also executed, as a result of the coordination of the first island institution and the Government of the Canary Islands after years of promises and neglect from governments of the Canarian Coalition, and which will soon operate on the island.”
“It was not easy to recover from the disaster we inherited from the Clavijo government, but we managed to implement basic services, launching specialties such as cardiovascular surgery, speech therapy for pediatric and adult patients, neuronal neurostimulation for the pain unit, and guaranteeing an essential service such as psychological care in all basic health zones of Lanzarote.”
The socialist formation also recalls that the previous government “committed an investment of a total of 1.8 million euros” in the improvement of Lanzarote's infrastructure to be executed in the 2024 financial year, of which “950,000 euros would be allocated to the construction, renovation, and expansion of the health centers of Playa Honda, Playa Blanca, Costa Teguise, Mala, and Tahiche”, and “866,000 euros to the renovation of the facilities of the Pathological Anatomy service and the relocation of the medical gas plant of the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital”, in addition to finalizing the investments that are underway.
