SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 17 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Social Action, Citizen Participation and Diversity of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Marián Franquet, has shared the need to launch a new plan for socio-health infrastructures, given that the current one has become “obsolete”.
This was stated in a press conference, as a result of the Minister of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands, Noemí Santana, having announced in a parliamentary commission that they are already working on a new plan.
Marián Franquet recalled that the current plan emerged five years ago and is a model that “has become obsolete”, since it provides for large social and health infrastructures and a “much smaller” model must be worked on.
Likewise, the island councilor stressed that the new plan should not only focus on the creation of residential places, but also on other types of dependency care actions, such as specialized home services.
In his opinion, the current social and health infrastructure plan “cannot be stretched any further”, so it coincides with the need to make a new plan that contemplates the new trends that must be incorporated into the new social and health centers.
“We have to turn around -the current plan- because it is not building buildings, but resources that respond to the real needs of citizens. We have the opportunity to substantially improve the planning that was there,” he concluded.
