SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 19 (EUROPE PRESS) –
Canarian Coalition has denounced the “precariousness” suffered by nurses in the Canary Islands and the “abandonment” to which the Government of the Canary Islands “has subjected” them, a situation that is generating “great discomfort” in the group.
The National Secretary General of the CC-PNC and Senator for the Autonomous Community, Fernando Clavijo; The secretary general of CC de Tenerife, Francisco Linares, and the secretary of the Organization of CC de Tenerife and deputy, Rosa Dávila, held a meeting yesterday with representatives of the Nursing College of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to analyze the situation currently suffered by this group due to the pandemic, in addition to listening to their demands and claims.
Fernando Clavijo stressed that these meetings are part of the project initiated by CC called ‘Canarias Te Neces’, an open dialogue with society in which the nationalists want to project a roadmap towards the Canary Islands of the future.
The nationalists denounced “the serious deterioration, abandonment and precariousness” suffered by Primary Care in the Canary Islands, demanding that the Government of Ángel Víctor Torres take “urgent measures to improve the attention and care provided to patients and citizens”.
The president of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife College of Nursing, José Ángel Rodríguez, revealed that a recent macro-survey shows the “unsustainable” situation of nurses: 85% have seen their mental health affected by the pandemic and half are considering leaving the profession. The incidence of infections multiplies by 2.3 the general; a third have suffered from depression; 6 out of 10 insomnia, and just over two thirds, severe episodes of anxiety (67.5%).
From the collective it was advanced that the situation is “unsustainable” and they announced that they will carry out massive strikes throughout Spain. In this sense, they revealed that this survey showed that 91.7% consider it necessary to mobilize.
For his part, Francisco Linares denounced the situation experienced by the nurses of the Islands and “the great overload and care tension that exists, the increase in waiting to be attended in person, the little time they have to attend and care as each person deserves or the gradual suppression of prevention and health promotion programs”.
In this sense, Linares considered it essential that the parliamentary processing of the Patient Safety Law be unblocked, that voluntary early retirement be made possible and that professional reclassification be allowed in group A (without subgroups), in addition to “finishing a once and for all with the temporality and job insecurity that nurses have been suffering for years”.
The secretary of the Organization of CC de Tenerife and deputy, Rosa Dávila, denounced that the Government of the Canary Islands “has done nothing but improvise in health matters and denies the reality suffered by both professionals and patients”; a reality that, according to the Tenerife nationalists, the Canarian Government “refuses to see” while public health in hospitals and Primary Care “is dying” due to the lack of health personnel, which is a “blow to professionals, but also to the population.
Dávila called on the Canarian Government not to turn its back on this reality, since “the lack of professionals is putting the health system and its workers, who are overwhelmed, on the brink of collapse”; a situation that also “directly affects the population, who see how the Administration does not guarantee their access to the health system”.
