SAN SEBASTIÁN DE LA GOMERA, September 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Social Welfare of the Government of the Canary Islands, Candelaria Delgado, has announced from the meeting of the Canary Islands Federation held in La Gomera a financing of 72 million euros for the creation of 600 new social and health care places.
According to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families, the regional manager informed the representatives of the councils of the provision of this item corresponding to the axis of the ‘Care Economy and reinforcement of equality and inclusion’ of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Fund of Spain.
Specifically, these 72 million will be allocated to the creation of new places and expansion of the provision of care resources of the network of social and health centers.
These funds, which will be transferred to the seven councils through the signing of individual agreements in which the projects to which these funds will be allocated and their connection with the planned objectives, will be specified, are framed within the line of ‘Equipment for Centered Care in the Person’ of the Agreement signed by the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 and the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.
ABOUT 600 NEW PLACES
According to the first calculations and initial forecasts conveyed by local corporations, this investment will finance more than 600 new social and healthcare places.
The infrastructures that will be paid for with these items will respond to the needs expressed by the island administrations to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families.
“The Government of the Canary Islands is aware that it is necessary to go further and continue expanding the number of residential, day and family respite places, to serve the population of the Islands, which is why it has already started work to implement The Third Social and Health Infrastructure Plan of the Canary Islands is underway, in collaboration with the councils,” said the counselor.
The person in charge also stressed that “it is also essential to make other tools available to people in a situation of dependency or disability, such as help to make their homes accessible or to have the figure of the personal assistant provided for in the dependency law. “.
“It is essential that we plan appropriately and with people in mind; not everything always has to be residential places, there are also other formulas so that elderly, dependent or disabled people are not institutionalized. We must develop all the instruments that the law allows us to put people at the center,” concluded Delgado.
