Yesterday, the mayor of Arona, Fátima Lemes, voiced that the Palliative Care Unit advocated by the community movement arising a month ago in Cabo Blanco is “crucial for the municipality of Arona and for the South.”
Lemes expressed the City Council’s “complete backing” to implement this service at the Hospital del Sur, situated in her municipality, and signified her determination to “unite efforts to ensure that the South has “a voice of our own” in support of the citizen platform, with whose representatives she has already held discussions, as stated to DIARIO DE AVISOS.
The mayor of Arona underlined that a palliative care service located as near as possible to the patients’ place of residence “is vital in this challenging and tough process, not only for the sick, but also for their families.”
COMMON DEPUTY
During this week, the Common Deputy informed Vanesa Díaz, the advocate of the neighbourhood platform, whose website paliativostfsur.es has garnered nearly 2,000 signatures of support, that her grievance has been accepted for processing. Consequently, this organisation, representing the figure of the Ombudsman in the Archipelago, will initiate “appropriate actions” with the Canarian Health Service.
“Once the requested information is received by the Provincial Council, it will be brought to your attention,” indicates the communication sent from the department directed by Rafael Yanes, which he personally received on January 29 at the Santa Cruz headquarters of the Provincial Council, Common to Vanesa Díaz.
Simultaneously, the citizen group is continuing to amass support for their cause and arranging further meetings. On the 27th, they will present their claim to the Ministry of Health in a meeting originally scheduled for that date, at 5:00 p.m., at the Parliament of the Canary Islands, to be attended by the head of the department, Esther Monzón.
