SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Deputy of the Common, Rafael Yanes, will present next Tuesday in the parliamentary commission of Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth, the extraordinary report on the situation of nursing homes for the elderly in the Canary Islands.
The document, corresponding to the year 2019 and which will be debated by the seven groups of the Chamber ten months after it was registered, relates the situation of 25 centers of the archipelago where in some of them many deficiencies such as scabies outbreaks have been detected, presence of rats, bed bugs and cockroaches, and lack of maintenance and social care for residents.
The committee’s agenda also includes a question from the spokesperson of the Mixed Group, Vidina Espino, who will question the Minister of Social Rights, Noemí Santana, about improving the quality of life of the elderly, and the appearance from the president of the Multicultural Association of Mauritanian Women on female genital mutilation in the Canary Islands.
