Canarian Coalition of Tenerife today denounced the situation currently suffered by the Hospital del Sur de Tenerife, an infrastructure that, according to the nationalists, “is totally underused, since he has stayed in a large office and not in the third-level hospital that the south of the island needs“. For CC, “it needs to be at the level of the reference hospitals on the island, such as La Candelaria and the HUC”.
The National Secretary General of the Canarian-PNC Coalition and Senator for the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo; the Secretary of Organization of CC de Tenerife and regional deputy, Rosa Davila; the spokesperson for the CC-PNC Nationalist Group in the Cabildo de Tenerife, Carlos Alonsoand the mayor of Granadilla de Abona, Jose Domingo Regaladoheld a meeting this morning with representatives of the Platform for the Public Hospital of the South to analyze the situation of this infrastructure and to demand that the Government of Angel Victor Torres (PSOE) that “start up a complete hospital for this area of the island, that alleviates the waiting lists and that responds to the different pathologies”.
Fernando Clavijo He regretted that in these last three years “almost no progress has been made after all the work that allowed the opening of this hospital and all the resources that were allocated and the infrastructures planned to make it a third level hospital.”
The leader of the Canarian nationalists, who highlighted the role of the citizen platform in all this struggle, denounced that the hospital’s infrastructure is “totally underused”, and demanded that the Executive of Angel Victor Torres to “make a firm commitment to Primary Care and to provide the hospital with the necessary professionals so that the citizens of the South do not have to travel to Santa Cruz and La Laguna”.
the mayor of Passion fruit, Jose Domingo Regalado (CC), stressed that the South of Tenerife “deserves a tertiary level hospital, which is up to the standards of La Candelaria and the HUC. We can’t wait any longer.” In his opinion, the South “has enough population, plus tourism, to have a hospital in good condition, the hospital that the population deserves, and we are not going to stop demanding it.”
Rosa Davila criticized that the Hospital del Sur “does not advance” and that “right now it is like a large office, but it is not a hospital. It does not serve to relieve waiting lists and does not respond to the needs of surgical intervention.” The nationalist deputy sued the Canary Islands Government that “starts up a complete hospital that allows to alleviate the waiting lists and respond to the different pathologies”.
Jordi Esplugasa member of the platform, stressed that “we have spent many years claiming a complete hospital for the South of Tenerife. This is a priority for us.” Currently, “we have a second-level regional hospital that is missing a lot. The current needs are much higher and have changed a lot, and the infrastructures have to improve”.
Bárbara Rodríguez, also a member of the platform, assured that the population of the south “needs a hospital, not a nursing home. We want a full-fledged hospital.” He lamented that “people are being left behind, that’s why we have to ease the waiting lists. We must not abandon people.” For Rodríguez, “people from the south deserve a hospital like the HUC and La Candelaria”.
