SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo de Tenerife are going to sign a new agreement before the end of the year endowed with 40 million euros, and on a multi-year basis, to finish the works on the Hospital del Sur and incorporate new services.
This is how the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, and his island counterpart, Pedro Martín, have advanced at a press conference, who have influenced the collaboration of both administrations to be able to definitively create a third-level hospital in the southern region.
The agreement involves the transfer and exchange of six plots in such a way that the Government receives the building that is currently in the structure phase to finish it and the Cabildo obtains the area of the old barracks of the CAE of El Mojón to build a social health center.
The agreement reorganizes spaces in some 28,000 square meters and affects a total area of 47,000 square meters and already includes for next year an item of one million euros for the drafting of projects so that the bidding for works is carried out in 2024.
Apart from the works, there will be new services linked to the hospital such as an ICU, both for adults and children, a day hospital, dialysis and chemotherapy, and Torres has promised that the necessary staff will be hired, not like in Madrid, where they are being built. sanitary infrastructures and then there are no workers.
“The government model of the Canary Islands is to expand the workforce,” he added, citing the 7,000 toilets incorporated as a result of the pandemic as an example.
As a step prior to signing the new agreement, the Governing Council yesterday approved the liquidation of the old one with the payment of 2.2 million corresponding to the 2023 annuity, in such a way that in this legislature payments have been made for about 22 million .
As stressed by the head of the Executive, in the first half of 2022, the Hospital del Sur has registered 3,121 surgical operations, which means 740 more than in all of 2021, apart from 49,307 emergencies and 92,000 consultations.
In addition, regarding the Hospital del Norte de Tenerife, he indicated that services such as major outpatient surgery, ophthalmology and various improvements in gynecology have been incorporated into this mandate, after an investment of some two million euros.
Pedro Martín has highlighted the importance of building “a real hospital” in the south of the island that responds to the demands of the citizen platform and believes that the plot obtained for the health center “is a fundamental advance” given the problem of places on the island.
The first thing, he has commented, will be to write the project because the old query structures must be demolished.
To this new socio-sanitary complex in the South, he hopes that another will be added to be built in La Orotava, thanks to the transfer of land from the City Council, which will allow users who are now in the Hospital del Norte de Icod to be referred and thus be able to use the facilities for sanitary activity.
