The dismissal of Doctor Elisa Corujo is a democratic outrage that smells of institutional censorship. The decision by the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands to sack the president of the Euthanasia Guarantee and Evaluation Commission was not a simple organizational change; it was an exemplary political punishment.
Hiding behind a vague "impossibility to exercise her functions" to remove a geriatrician in full possession of her professional capabilities is an insult to the intelligence of citizens and an act of administrative cowardice that seeks to camouflage the intolerable.
Corujo's real "crime" was refusing to be the political doormat of a Ministry that confuses public management with a private fiefdom. Her sin consisted of staunchly defending the independence of the evaluation body and complying with the law by forwarding the annual euthanasia report for publication on the Transparency Portal. That uncomfortable data on the application of dignified death in the Islands stings in official offices only demonstrates this Executive's chronic allergy to truth and accountability.
When Health prefers to professionally decapitate an upright professional rather than assume the structural deficiencies of the system, the message it sends to all healthcare personnel is devastating: either you shut up and are complicit, or you're out. This forced dismissal not only dismantled the neutrality of a crucial medical commission for the most vulnerable patients, but also blew up the little credibility the Canarian Health Service had left.
The Ministry of Health must immediately reverse this abuse of power. If Minister Esther Monzón does not annul the dismissal and reinstate Elisa Corujo in her position, it will be definitively established that in the Canary Islands, transparency is persecuted and professional dissent is punished with a purge. Fundamental rights are not played with to save seats.
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