Nueva Canarias (NC) has proclaimed this Saturday Yoné Caraballo, a nurse at the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital in Arrecife, as a candidate for Lanzarote and La Graciosa to the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the elections on May 28.
With the prominent presence of the national president of the Canarian nationalists, Román Rodríguez, the until now Secretary of Social Welfare of NC in Lanzarote pledged to bring the multiple demands of citizens, associations and groups to the autonomous Chamber and be the voice of Lanzarote and the Eighth Island in Parliament, also warning that he would not suffer the "post Binter amnesia that other parliamentarians suffer every time they say one thing here in Lanzarote but forget about it as soon as they arrive in Tenerife." "I intend to be the deputy of Lanzarote and not for Lanzarote. It's over," said the candidate during his speech. "If I get the seat, which will be neither mine nor Nueva Canarias's, but yours, the deputies of Nueva Canarias who represent Gran Canaria will not have to do us any more favors because I am going to be very constant and very annoying," he announced.
Caraballo received the unanimous support of sympathizers, affiliates and public and organic officials of NC in an act after the 'Isla Hogar' Convention that the Canarian nationalists also celebrated in the Civic Center of Arrecife, with two discussion tables that also served to learn about and collect demands from associations and NGOs in the socio-health field.
"With Yoné Caraballo in Parliament, the island of Lanzarote will finally have the deputy it deserves," said Román Rodríguez. "He will not be just another deputy for Lanzarote and La Graciosa; he will be the deputy," said the also vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands. "Now it depends on you, on us and on everyone that Yoné is the candidate that this island needs," said Román Rodríguez, who advocated for the "self-government of this land" and again demanded that "decisions be made here."
"Translate to Canarian"
In his turn, the already NC candidate for Parliament had an applauded gesture when imitating the sadly deceased Canarian humorist Manolo Vieira when he tried to explain some of his experiences as a nurse in the Hospital of Lanzarote. "When I started in 2005, there were mostly colleagues from outside. You always had to pull someone to translate for us with German, English patients, but these colleagues called me every time they wanted me to translate what some patient was saying to them in Canarian." Caraballo won the complicity of the audience and a well-deserved applause for that tribute to Vieira.
About his journey in the Canarian nationalist ranks, he stressed that he is "in Nueva Canarias because here there are people who defend the same thing in rallies as behind closed doors." "They are normal people who are really worried about people," he said.
Among other issues, the Canarian nationalist candidate for Parliament, who stated that "in healthcare we cannot talk about economic profitability but social," announced that, if elected deputy, he would demand first of all in the Canarian Chamber that the Mala Clinic in Haría be finally opened. "If it is not opened between now and May 28, I guarantee that with me that Clinic will be opened yes or yes," said Caraballo. The candidate recalled at this point that his colleague Marcos Lemes, NC candidate for Mayor of Haría, went in person to Parliament to defend a Non-Law Proposal (PNL) through Canarian nationalist deputies for Gran Canaria, such as Carmen Hernández, to demand the opening of this health center in the north of Lanzarote.
Yoné Caraballo, who like Román Rodríguez again opted for professionalized management and management at the head of hospitals throughout the Canary Islands, recalled some achievements of his political formation despite not having had representation for Lanzarote in Parliament until now. "With the projects of a new basic health area for Arrecife we ended up achieving an area for the capital and also another for Playa Honda, in San Bartolomé; we started the commitment of Health for the second medicalized ambulance and the second health helicopter was also a reality," he stressed.
The Canarian nationalist candidate also stated, as he advanced in the discussion table where he spoke about Mental Health during the morning, that Parliament also approved the proposal of the 'emotional chat', consisting of a psychologist or a nurse specialized in mental health attending through instant messaging such as Whatsap to minors with deficiencies or psychological problems. "This will achieve, first, that the system knows that there is a problem in advance and, second, that the child feels that support, that he has escape tools and channels to ask for help," he said. "We need progress in mental health, because in the Canary Islands we have gone in a few years from 17% to 43% of the population that takes anxiolytics. Psychiatric disorders that require specialized care are the new silent pandemic that has been established in our society," Caraballo added. "That is why we also proposed more than a year ago a psychiatry unit in the Molina Orosa Hospital, but then they called us populists," he lamented.
Caraballo demanded that the Island have a Hemodynamics Unit "now" and demanded during the act of his proclamation "that the Cabildo of Lanzarote make effective as soon as possible the social agreement that is affecting so much to associations and NGOs that provide an invaluable service."