SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 21 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, announced this Thursday that the island of Tenerife will receive 21 million Next Generation funds, charged to the Investment Plan for High-Tech Equipment (PIEAT) to renew 22 high-tech health equipment.
In a press conference on the occasion of a visit to the Hospital de La Candelaria to evaluate the projects, he highlighted that the complex will receive a total of 11 million to renovate 11 facilities, within an investment package that will leave all the islands 38.5 million and the improvement of 40 teams.
Darias has pointed out that the PIEAT is the “largest investment in the history” of Spanish public health, with a total of 795 million to execute between 2021 and 2022 the improvement and modernization of 851 pieces of equipment.
Thus, he has said that the objective is to “transform” public health to better define diagnoses and more quickly and improve therapeutic intervention and believes that this plan will mark “a before and after” in medical care.
The minister took the opportunity to highlight the La Candelaria Hospital as a “quality benchmark” in genomic sequencing and because it was the first of the islands to carry out the Covid-19 tests that were sent to the Carlos III Institute, a recognition that has been extended to the workers, who have shown with their “excellence” that “things can be done very well”.
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has indicated that both the central and Canarian governments are “prioritizing” health and modernizing technology to respond to adverse situations “as soon as possible”.
He has given as an example that in Tenerife more new hospital beds are going to be created this year, a total of 132 –88 in La Candelaria–, than in the last 12 years, some even convertible into ICUs, and measures are being taken against waiting lists “to set the time” for public health.
Like Darias, he thanked the work of the workers, who have passed a “difficult exam” due to the pandemic.
