The PSOE will demand that the Minister of Health, José Manuel Baltar, explain in the Parliament of the Canary Islands the reasons that have led to the opening of a file on the head of the Digestive System Section of the Doctor Molina Orosa Hospital as a result of her statements about the deficiencies in her area, in which she warned of the problems in carrying out cancer diagnostic tests.
The regional parliamentarian and island secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, has expressed her "enormous concern" about this situation. "Everything makes us think that it is a reprisal for her public statements. It gives the impression of a desperate attempt to cover up the deficiencies that the health service is going through," she declared, stating that "the complaint made by this doctor constitutes an exercise of responsibility with respect to the citizens of Lanzarote, who have the right to know in what conditions our people are cared for."
Corujo has also criticized the secrecy with which the health administration has conducted itself. "If there was a solid basis for disciplining this professional, it should have been done transparently, publicly informing the reasons why this decision was adopted," Corujo criticized, who pointed out that the health administration "has done the opposite, even denying the existence of the disciplinary file," as La Voz de Lanzarote published this Wednesday.
"We are going to demand a convincing response from the minister and he better have it. Otherwise, we would be faced with an exercise of power inappropriate for a democratic administration. We cannot tolerate our healthcare professionals being silenced by imposing a kind of administrative omertá on them," she warned.
