He Social health center or residence for the elderly in Guía de Isora undertakes the last phase of the work that will enable the completion of a work that began in 2010. Work has already begun on the last phase of the project, which has a budget of almost two million, with which the Cabildo and the City Council will respond to a historical demand from the inhabitants of the Southwest region
The president of the Island Corporation, Pedro Martín; the Minister of Social Action, Marián Franquet, and the mayoress of Guía de Isora, Josefa Mesa, visited the center, the start-up of which contemplates the creation of 75 residential places and 20 daytime.
“We resolve a pending issue and fulfill the commitment made”
Peter Martin highlighted that with its opening, scheduled for this year, “From the Cabildo we resolve a pending issue and we fulfill the commitment that we acquired at the beginning of the mandate to create new social and health places, to try that the elderly can receive quality care without leaving their environment.
As an Isoran mayor, Josefa Mesa He stressed that “it is a project that we have been demanding for a long time and that today is already a reality thanks to the collaboration and the decisive impulse that has been given from the Cabildo.” She seemed convinced that This year “it will be finished, responding to many families who need this type of resource”.
“This is a project that we have been demanding for a long time and that today is already a reality”
The counselor Marian Franquet explained that the main objective of the works, whose execution period is 10 months, is to provide the center for the elderly with some basic services (hot water and electricity) that were not included in the project approved by the previous island government, without which it is impossible to pay adequate attention.
At the same time, the facility will be equipped with the necessary furniture (beds, bath chairs, transfer cranes, televisions…) so that older people can reside and have facilities and equipment that improve their quality of life.
A history of interruptions
On May 28, 2010, the demolition of the building that housed the old schools took place. from the Isoran urban area. It was the beginning of the construction of this residence for the elderly. The works of the first phase, which were covered only with municipal funding for an amount of 1.2 million euros, began in 2010 and concluded at the end of 2011.
Despite the fact that this socio-sanitary complex is a work demanded by the residents, the Isorano City Council could not complete its construction due to a change in state legislation, which 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 later contribution of the Government of the Canary Islands of 400,000 euros. The works resumed at the beginning of December 2014, but the works were stopped in March 2015. On January 31, 2017, the regional Executive announced that it was assuming the financing to complete the construction.
With a term of 10 months to build the two 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 the last stoppage occurred.
