It is time for reflection, to analyze the care model created over these 40 years. Its container is the Hospital Insular de Lanzarote. Its renovations have allowed us to develop an unprecedented geriatric care model. Without it, we would not be who we are from a professional standpoint; without it, Lanzarote would not provide the quality of care that characterizes it. It is a benchmark for geriatric care on our island and autonomous community, as well as within the national territory.Years of struggle, study, and work by many professionals who have found a reason to keep moving forward have passed. There have been intense moments in communication with the different managers to make them understand that the levels of care within geriatrics are defined by dignified spaces, with adequate professionals and resources.
Thank you, Hospital Insular; thank you for allowing us to see the value of care for people who need protection in the context of the vulnerability of our human condition. Thank you for learning, building, and allowing us to care with quality.
We must congratulate ourselves, celebrate the work carried out within the framework of the Insular Hospital. Today, its infrastructure is precarious and at the end of its useful life; today its obsolescence is a reality, but its greatness lies in the care model that has been implemented.
The history of this care model must always be remembered, as it is a great asset that we have in our present and that we must project into the future. Because, if we do not take into account our care history, it is difficult to justify its continuity and development.
The Insular Hospital has given us many years of life. It has adapted to social changes and the development of healthcare with great dignity, thanks to all the professionals, to the feeling that fragile, resourceless human beings, as well as families, need person-centered care to respect their dignity.
Building a new Island Hospital or rebuilding its current infrastructure is the challenge of new times. Political and social involvement must go hand in hand to continue guaranteeing specific and dignified care focused on the needs of vulnerable people within the framework of geriatrics; and in this way, Lanzarote can maintain the hallmark of excellence in care that so characterizes it.
In our memory and in the annals of this land, the Insular Hospital will always be a benchmark of care, a unique entity, just as César Manrique has been and is. Both are crucial references for our land and enrich us as a society.
There is no memory that endures without the struggle to preserve it, nourish it, and project it.
I toast to the caring gift that the Insular Hospital has given us. I toast to its professionals, whom I embrace with all my heart.