SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, stated this Tuesday that the Executive is working “well” with concerted healthcare despite the “clear” commitment to public and universal healthcare, giving as an example that billing grew by 9.2% and surgical interventions 15.4% in 2021.
“Better managing public resources is an obligation, also in health”, he indicated in response to a question from the PP in the control session in which he said that the relationship with concerted health has been regulated in an order since 2003 and He has not clarified whether he considers the proposal of the popular so that the diagnostic tests or preferential surgeries that suffer a waiting list of more than a month, are necessarily referred to the concerted health.
He has shown his desire to update it but has made it clear that for now it is applied as a “priority” criterion and people who have a pending intervention with more than a month’s delay already have the right to be operated on in the concerted health service.
Torres has snapped at the president of the popular, Manuel Domínguez, that he “confuses reality with desire” because he is going to continue in opposition after the next elections and has said that the communities where they govern are not a “mirror” to look at themselves in management sanitary.
Domínguez has given as an example of the situation of the health waiting list that an endoscopy takes 7 months or a mammogram another three and has promised to promote this referral if he is president after the May elections.
He has asked Torres to have the same “zeal for negotiation” and “Christmas spirit” that the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, has had, “who has put aside ideology, radical politics and Podemos and has accepted the proposals of the PP”.
