Canarian Coalition (CC) of Los Realejos and the nationalist deputy José Alberto Díaz-Estébanez will lead the Parliament of the Canary Islands the situation of “abandonment” that, according to what they say, the Realejo Emergency Center suffersas well as the “subhuman conditions that the neighbors suffer every day” who go to the medical facility to have an analysis done.
The nationalist deputy has registered a question addressed to Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islandsthe socialist Blas Trujillo, in which it reveals “the breaches of the City Council and the Executive with the residents of the area, who have been totally abandoned.” The nationalists demand an urgent solution for this medical center, located in the old municipal market, and denounce that there has been a “serious lack of planning in this matter.”
The CC councilor and candidate for mayor of Los Realejos, María Isabel Pérez Expósito, points out that the change of entry to access the analytics area has caused users “to have to endure high temperatures, cold and rain while they wait, since they are outdoors due to the volume of daily appointments.” “More than 50 people come to meet in a space where they cannot take refuge,” says the mayor.
In addition, Pérez Expósito also criticizes the lack of seats so that “neighbors can sit while they wait, something that is extremely serious for the elderly, with reduced mobility or pregnant people”. The mayor recalls that in 2019, CC carried in its electoral program the conversion of the Los Realejos Health Center into a Specialty Center (CAE), “in order, in this way, to be able to renovate a building that no longer meets the demands of the neighbors to improve their care.
Pérez Expósito takes the opportunity to state that “nothing is known about the long-awaited work” of the Toscal-Longuera Health Center. «Only when the elections arrive, the local government of the PP agrees that the need for a new office for the Toscal-Longuera». The councilor indicates that, on numerous occasions, CC has asked in plenary session and in commissions what situation the aforementioned project is in.
«The last thing we know, officially, is that the former mayor Manuel Dominguez used to make a car park the land that in its day was ceded by the City Council for the construction of the new doctor’s office. In addition, the Department of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands He has requested in writing that the land be returned to its original state for which it was assigned, while the City Council tried, without success, to change the location of the new office, “adds the mayor.
In this sense, the CC deputy highlights the “seriousness of these events” and comments that both the municipal group and the parliamentary group will be vigilant so that the City Council and the Government seek a solution.
