The Social Services area of the Arona City Council has renewed the agreement it maintains with the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) to offer free transport to cancer patients who are forced to travel to hospitals in the Santa Cruz-La Laguna metropolitan area .
Both the mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, and the councilor for this area, Ruth Lorenzo, held a meeting with representatives of the AECC, led by Andrés Orozco, its provincial president, before signing the agreement, whose objective is to bring to health facilities for those who receive treatment, especially people with fewer economic resources, who could give up treatment due to the cost of the transfer.
The agreement to support the Solidarity Kilometer project has a budget of 12,240 euros and contemplates the possibility of subsidizing the transportation of residents to the collection point, which is located in Los Cristianos, as long as it is necessary due to lack of financial resources.
The transport of cancer patients provided by the Spanish Association Against Cancer leaves from this nucleus every day from Monday to Friday, including holidays.
José Julián Mena stressed the importance of this service, but took advantage of the occasion to demand “a public hospital of the highest level, which provides comprehensive care to the residents of the South, for whom it is extremely hard to have to travel to the metropolitan area to receive treatment”. .
