The Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Esther Monzón, the Deputy Minister of Health and Director of the Canary Islands Health Service, Carlos Díaz, and all the unions in the health sector of the archipelago with representation in the Sectoral Health Table demand that the Ministry of Health provide adequate funding to maintain the health devices activated in the islands to respond to the migratory crisis that the archipelago has been experiencing for months.
Thus, Monzón and the members of the Sectoral Table have sent a letter to the Minister of Health, Mónica García, in which they demand "the support of the Ministry and the entire Government of the State for the allocation of the necessary resources to meet the demand for healthcare for migrants arriving on our coasts in deplorable conditions that require immediate, urgent and complex attention, as well as multidisciplinary, representing an excessive effort for the system and for the professionals involved."
The letter recalls that this situation, anomalous and constantly growing, represents a budgetary investment that is being assumed by the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands with its own means, for which it demands that the Government of Spain finance this action that is being assumed by the Government of the Canary Islands, "so that they contribute to alleviate the huge, continuous and growing need for financing generated by the aforementioned provision."
To conclude the letter, Esther Monzón asked the Ministry of Health to contribute "to sustain the healthcare required by migrants arriving in inhuman conditions on our coasts, which requires a complex multidisciplinary approach in a particularly sensitive territory, and which entails the exhaustion of the resources available for it."