With the signing of the reconsideration act, which will be formalized this Thursday (February 16), the work that remains to complete the Guía de Isora residence for the elderly begins. The work will consist of equipping the center with electrical supply facilities, protection against firesplumbing, sanitation, air conditioning and laundry, among others, as well as legalizing, according to current regulations, those carried out in the previous phases and providing the center with furniture (beds, bath chairs, transfer cranes, televisions…). So you can start working.
The project, awarded last January for almost two million euros, will provide 75 residential places for the elderly and another 20 daytime places for the Southwest region. This will culminate an infrastructure started on May 28, 2010, with the demolition of the old schools in the Isorano urban area, which were also used as a health center. The demolition was attended by the then Government delegate in Canary Islands, Caroline Dariasaccompanied by the then sub-delegate of the Government in TenerifeJosé Antonio Batista, and the mayor of Guía de Isora, Pedro Martín, today president of the Cabildo.
It is the insular councilor for Social Action, Marián Franquet, who makes public “the imminent start of the works that were pending execution at the Guía de Isora socio-sanitary center for its opening and start-up”. Franquet is responsible for the Institute of Social and Socio-Health Care (IASS), an autonomous body of the Cabildo de Tenerife linked to this important work for the southwestern region of the Island.
The start of the Consistory
The Guía senior center is a work demanded by the residents that the Isorano City Council began to build, but could not complete due to a change in state legislation that reduced the powers of local corporations in terms of social services. The Consistory ceded the land and invested 1,200,000 euros, to which was added the subsequent contribution of the Government of the Canary Islands of 400,000 euros. However, the works were paralyzed in March 2015. On January 31, 2017, The regional Executive announced that it was assuming the financing to complete the construction. presided over Fernando Clavijo (DC).
“When we arrived at the island government, we found multiple incidents of an urban and administrative nature”
With a term of 10 months to build the 2 projected floors and finish the structures that could not be done at the time, the IASS resumed the work in May 2018 and proposed to equip the center and put it into operation in the following 12 months. It could not be. At the end of 2019 there was another stoppage. Marian Franquet remember that the project did not contemplate the industrial part, which prevented the center from providing essential services such as energy supply. The counselor stressed that “when we arrived at the Island Government we found multiple incidents of an urban and administrative nature, to which we had to dedicate many hours to unblock the Social Health Infrastructure Plan that, in 2019, did not have a plan, despite have been approved for two years.
“The one that we have battled for a long time and we know that it will be a great relief for many people in our municipality and the region”
The mayoress of Guía de Isora, Josefa Mesa, maintains that “it is a much-needed residence, for which we have fought for a long time and which we know will be a great relief for many people in our municipality and the region” . Mesa, who was also a councilor for Social Services, remembers that she The City Council ceded the land and carried out works before ceding the building to facilitate its construction. She is convinced that “the center will improve the well-being of our elderly, not only because it is closer to their environment and their families, but because of the infrastructure itself, located in a key place that also benefits the services and economy of the municipality”.
The work was tendered in 2009 and awarded to the company Estudio Lavin SL. In its origin, This social health center would cost 2.1 million eurosfinanced with the State Fund for Local Investment, and would occupy a plot of 2,602 square meters.
