The Socialist Group of the Cabildo of Lanzarote will request in the next plenary session that the "extraordinary" work carried out by the old Insular Hospital, now attached to the Canary Islands Health Service since January 2019, be recognized and that it be guaranteed that "it will continue to perform its current functions." They will also urge the Plenary to request the 'Gold Medal of the Canary Islands 2024' for its "brilliant" trajectory.
"The Insular Hospital is the result of the effort of the generations that preceded us, so we will urge to request the 'Gold Medal of the Canary Islands 2024'," they pointed out from the party.
The spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Ariagona González, has pointed out that the hospital has played "a transcendental role in the island's public health system, being the first modern hospital on the island since it came into operation in the mid-twentieth century, on the initiative of Doctor José Molina Orosa, Favorite Son of Lanzarote."
"The hospital is legally a hospital and was included in the 'National Catalog of Hospitals of the Ministry of Health and Consumption'. It should be noted that it is not an asylum and it is not a nursing home either. The Insular Hospital has an attached residence within its own premises, with which it shares many synergies of equipment and operation, but they are two functionally independent services," says González.
Likewise, she adds that "although it has two buildings within the same premises, with clearly differentiated functions, the Insular Hospital itself and the attached residence, in its last stage it specialized in Geriatrics and became the great reference center in the Canary Islands, providing high-quality services to the elderly population of the island and implementing a type of organization recognized outside the island and that attracted the attention of many professionals."
"Lanzarote families do not forget the human quality of its professionals"
"Its Acute Hospitalization Unit, as well as the 'Palliative Care Unit', are remembered by countless Lanzarote families for the exceptional quality of its services and the extraordinary human category of its professionals. Lanzarote has registered important advances in recent decades after the launch of the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital and the opening of a wide network of health centers. However, the Insular Hospital continues to participate in the joint effort of healthcare for the citizens of Lanzarote and La Graciosa and its work must be recognized and the permanence of its functions guaranteed," concludes the spokesperson for the Socialist Group.
