The Los Realejos Town Hall adapts two new toilets for the needs of people with ostomies or intestinal disease in the Basilio Labrador Sports Complex, after months ago he had done the same in the public toilets on the beach of El Socorro. These actions are part of the municipal project for the implementation of this type of services in collaboration with the Canarian Association of Patients and Relatives of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Ostomy (Aceiio).
According to the councilor of Public Works from Los Realejos, José Andrés Pérez (PP), with these two new interventions, the commitment of «this type of adaptations in public infrastructures toilets of the locality, which will continue to be made progressively in other municipal spaces, in order to facilitate these people with inflammatory bowel disease and ostomy places suitable for their circumstances and improve their quality of life.
“This type of adaptation in public infrastructures toilets will continue to be made progressively in other spaces”
On the morning of this Friday, January 7, they visited the sports facility of the Los Realejos Town Hall the mayor himself José Andrés Pérez next to the Councilor for Sports, José Benito Dévora (PP); the president of the Canarian Association of Patients and Families of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Ostomy, Oliver Grillo, as well as representatives of the group and of different clubs and sports entities in the town.
Benito Dévora valued «the good news that supposes to continue improving the benefits of this sports complex with so many users and with so many different realities throughout the day, and almost every day of the week, contributing indirectly, in this case, to integration in sport of those who suffer from intestinal diseases with their particular difficulties. Integration that is possible with the simple fact of enabling adapted toilets, which can now be used ”.