A worker from the Insular Hospital has contacted La Voz to defend the continuity of the hospital center following the Canary Islands Government's Department of Health's intention to move it to the emerging diseases building of Molina Orosa.
This reader and employee states that the Insular Hospital is "unique it is the only center specialized in geriatrics in the Canary Islands, with all that this implies".
However, he assures that the political party currently in power "intends to **erase it with a stroke of a pen**, but other parties that for years have not seen us are now beginning to look at us, although I am not going to judge whether it is political expediency or that very human tendency to value things only when they are about to be lost."In this regard, he points out that "we have the enemy at home, management itself does not support us... what we call informing the public, they call it a 'circus'. They want us silenced because they know they are not acting properly and they know that the population of Lanzarote will not allow this situation.""They call us unsupportive for not wanting the crumbs they offer us, closing the Insular Hospital and moving us to the Emerging Diseases Building, sharing this building with other services that, rightly so, are not happy that we are going to occupy a space they need so much," he continues."The result is absurd; one service cannot grow because another invades it, and Lanzarote loses a specialized hospital," he states.
Therefore, he reaffirms that "we must be the voice of our elders because they cannot raise theirs. They are already punished enough: used as hostages every time pensions are discussed, subjected to an ordeal every time they step into a bank, and faced with technology they don't understand, for them to also lose the only resource designed exclusively for them."
"Perhaps our politicians believe we don't deserve this hospital, just as we don't deserve an auditorium promised for so many years or a Fairground where, during carnival, people can perform with dignity and the public can attend to enjoy themselves. Perhaps the problem lies in how we understand what this island deserves and what it doesn't," he concludes
