The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Peter Martin, calls on the Government of the Canary Islands to sign the agreement that enables the extension of the Hospital del Sur that was announced the day before yesterday Blaise Trujillo, Regional Minister of Health, in the Autonomous Parliament. The agreement will materialize the transfer of the building under construction that the Cabildo owns next to the hospital complex and the delivery, by the regional Executive to the island, of the site occupied by the old barracks that formed the El Mojón Specialized Care Center (CAE).
“Tell us what day and what time we meet in the South to deliver the property to the Government”
“I call on the Minister of Health to tell us what day, when and what time we meet in the South to deliver the property to the Government and put an end to the announcements about a hospital that has been waiting for its conclusion for a long time,” Martín Domínguez said yesterday. The president of the Island Corporation maintains that it will be “from then on” the moment in which “we will be able to tell the southern society and Tenerife that, finally, the Hospital del Sur is going to be a reality”.
“We need that announcement to materialize and translate into the necessary investments”
Blas Trujillo, Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, announced the day before yesterday the expansion of the center with the construction of a 20,000 square meter building and an investment of 40 million. A work and the consequent portfolio of services that will raise the category of the Hospital del Sur to the third level, thus equating it to the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC) and to University Hospital Our Lady of Candelaria (Hunsc).
“The Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo have fulfilled a promise that was made three years ago”
This anouncement It is “a first step” to complete an “essential” work that will respond to the demand of a region that brings together some 300,000 inhabitants and which has a large floating population. This aspect is highlighted by the mayor of Santiago del Teide, Emilio Navarro, who now awaits diligence “to see a historic claim fulfilled and have a decent hospital.”
Josefa Mesa has no doubt that “after so many years of waiting and so many negative circumstances that we have experienced, this news is a joy for the South.” The mayor of Guía de Isora also appreciates the fact that the new building “will provide greater coverage for the health needs of the region.”
“Faced with these types of ads, there is only disbelief; We’ll keep waiting”
Regalado, the most critical
One year after the elections Blas Trujillo also made an announcement about the works of this hospital center “without today having a real hospital in the south of Tenerife”. José Domingo Regalado, the mayor of Granadilla de Abona, remembers it, and is incredulous: «We will continue to wait and see how those who were going to change everything change nothing. Meanwhile, patients will have to continue moving to the metropolitan area. We will continue to demand the infrastructures that the inhabitants of this part of the island deserve and that today are not a reality.
“Knowing the administration, there will be no extension before five years”
His counterpart in San Miguel de Abona, Arturo González, is skeptical of Blas Trujillo’s words. He appreciates that they are a recognition by the Canarian Government of the need that the South has to have a reference hospital. “There is a long way from saying to doing and we have been waiting for the Hospital del Sur for a long time,” he points out before sentencing: “Knowing the administrative machinery, there will be no expansion before five years.”
“After so many years of waiting, this news is a joy for the South”
The optimist this time is José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga. The mayor of the municipality of Adeje uses terms such as “great news” and a response to a need and demand of 20 years. Remember that this Hospital benefits the region and the Island. «The Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo have fulfilled a promise that was made three years ago and that will finally provide the South with the necessary infrastructure and that will improve the lives of thousands of people . It has much merit that in just three years a situation has been redirected that in decades nobody knew or wanted to solve.
«This announcement is a first step to see a historic claim fulfilled»
More vindictive is José Julián Mena, mayor of Arona. In his opinion, he is “excellent news” and emphasizes the fact that with this the region will have a third-level hospital. “For us it is key that our neighbors do not have to go to La Candelaria or the HUC to receive hospital care. What we need is for that announcement to materialize and translate into the necessary investments to make it a reality. He concludes by congratulating the neighbors and those who have pressed to reach this achievement. To the neighbors and those who have pressed to reach this achievement.
