SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president and social worker of the Tenerife Breast Cancer Association (ÁMATE), Mary Carmen Bonfante and Paula Rodríguez, respectively, have met with the Deputy of the Common, Rafael Yanes, and the deputy for Gender Equality and Violence, Beatriz Barrera, and they complained about the “long” waiting lists that exist on the island to operate on patients with breast cancer, as well as the exclusion of ÁMATE from the Women’s Council after having changed the name of the entity.
The coronavirus has slowed down many of the health services on the islands and, for Bonfante, people suffering from breast cancer are one of the groups most affected by the results of the pandemic, since there are waiting lists of up to three months.
“We are dying from covid but without having covid, people with breast cancer and other cancers do not seem to exist,” he says in a note.
He also denounces the lack of coordination between the two hospitals on the island of Tenerife, “which have unbalanced waiting lists and do not agree between one and the other, in the end the only thing that should be coherence and joint work for the benefit of people, we just ask them to react. “
They also transferred the conflict that the association faces after having eliminated the word ‘woman’ from the name of the entity, which has been displaced from the Women’s Council for this fact.
“We are the same association that serves 99% of women and 1% of men and, therefore, we do not understand that we are excluded from certain subsidies for the simple fact of having eliminated the word ‘woman’ from the title of our organization “, it indicates.
Diputación del Común and the deputy of Equality promised to study both complaints and, for his part, Yanes assured that he will contact the Directorate of the Canary Islands Health Service to know first-hand the situation that exists around the waiting lists for operations of breast cancer in Tenerife.
