SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The candidate of the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) to the Congress of Deputies for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Cristina Valido, has demanded that the State update the regional financing to reduce the health deficit in the Canary Islands because “at present it does not respond to the needs that canary men and women have”.
This has been stated after holding, together with the CC candidate for the Senate, Gladis de León, a meeting at the Official College of Physicians of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife with its president, Rodrigo Martín Hernández, to analyze the main demands of the collective and that these can be transferred to Madrid by the hand of Coalición Canaria.
The nationalist candidate wanted to recall that due to the situation in La Palma they have limited their activity to small meetings, but in which they want to “continue saying loud and clear how important it is for the Canary Islands that the Canary Islands Coalition is in Madrid with a strong presence for that the problems of the Islands are taken into account”.
In health matters, Valido recalled that the regional financing for the Canary Islands by the State has not been updated: “Health financing does not respond to the needs that we Canary Islands men and women have. Our population has grown a lot and, in addition, we have to replicate the services in each one of the Islands”.
In this sense, he assured that there are significant problems in obtaining specialists. “Somehow we have to find unique measures so that specialists do not stop coming to the Canary Islands because, for example, it is very difficult to find accommodation,” he stressed.
“We need our hospitals to be well equipped and not see ourselves without specialists in many of them,” said the nationalist candidate, who reiterated that Madrid “has to understand, both in Congress and in the Senate, that we have different problems like no other community possesses because we are different, singular, we are very far away, we are islands”.
For this reason, he considers it vital to update regional financing, since “we have a problem that, in addition to serving 12 million tourists, financing has not been reviewed for years, and this generates a deficit that is growing and that we have to respond with much less money,” said Valido.
