From my time as a student at the Public University of Murcia where I studied nursing, until today, practicing my profession as an Emergency Nurse at the Dr. José Molina Orosa Hospital, I have always felt in a special way the labor injustices towards my colleagues, as well as in health matters for the society of Lanzarote. A feeling difficult to explain, as if it were an inner voice that shouts at you and gets you up to act and does not let you look the other way impassively.
It does not enter my head that in a fundamental pillar such as public health, one can speculate and cut depending on the profitability it offers, when in public health the concept of profitability should not exist. Both health and public education belong to everyone, and as such, those political and administrative officials who lead them should have as objectives to improve and manage public services in order to give a better response to the needs of all citizens.
And now you will ask, why are you getting into politics? Very good question. Personally, I would define politics as a feeling of struggle of citizens committed to defending the rights and improving the conditions of a society, especially in basic pillars such as health, education, social services and housing. Starting from there, as a citizen, and before being a trade unionist, I fought from the social movement for health injustices and that, in short, is doing politics. Taking the step to active politics I see it as a natural process, something that simply had to happen.
Working as a nurse I cannot allow the injustices suffered by employees of public health, but above all, its users in Lanzarote and La Graciosa. It was for that reason that my colleagues from the union decided to enter and do unionism, because in order to change things we have to be present where the decisions that affect us all are made. It has been demonstrated that there is a before and after since our presence, with the achievement of several milestones such as the second medicalized ambulance for Lanzarote, or the fight for fairer oppositions where we drove the Government of the Canary Islands "crazy" on countless occasions.
Therefore, when Somos Lanzarote offered me to run as a candidate for the Senate for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, I did not see it as a personal opportunity, but as an opportunity for the people of La Graciosa and Lanzarote to have a representative who with honesty and great enthusiasm will defend in Madrid the interests and real problems of all the people of Lanzarote and all the people of Graciosa, as I have been doing all these years in the field of public health.
In short, I define myself as one more of the people who come from the social and union struggle, and who defends the public service to the extreme. In addition, and this is no less important, I will not have centralist walls to tear down that prevent me from fighting for improvements in Madrid for our islands, because La Graciosa and Lanzarote deserve it. They deserve a voice in the Senate that speaks of the real problems.
Yone Caraballo Medina, candidate for the Senate for Nueva Canarias-Somos Lanzarote.
