The municipal government of Arona is working with the Health Department of the Government of the Canary Islands to find a solution for the peripheral clinic in Las Galletas. They state that they are addressing with the Canary Islands Health Service the resolution of “a priority need” for the locality through construction or finding another location, “something that has not been carried out due to the lack of action by the previous government.”
The peripheral clinic in Las Galletas has been closed since Sunday, the 10th, when a fire occurred causing the Health Department of the Government of Canarias, -“the only competent body,” clarifies the government of Arona-, to transfer the care activities to the El Fraile Health Centre.
The City Council of Arona announced yesterday that “it has been and is in direct communication with the Health Department of the Government of the Canary Islands to determine the extent of the damage to the property, carried out by the technicians of the Health Service Infrastructure department of the Canary Islands Health Service, as well as to be informed of the daily activities at the El Fraile medical centre”
The Primary Care Management of Tenerife has reorganised the services that “have been provided completely normally” up to now. The staff of the Las Galletas clinic, comprised of four Family Care units, each with a family doctor, a nurse, and an administrative staff member, are carrying out their work at the El Fraile health centre, continuing with the corresponding care activities.
The Arona branch of the PSOE expressed their concern yesterday that “the suspension of the Las Galletas medical clinic’s activity may have become permanent, after a week without news of the service’s reactivation, the same amount of time that the socialists have been waiting for the municipal report that supposedly supported what was meant to be a temporary closure”.
The socialists hint at the possibility that “the tripartite and the mayoress, Fátima Lemes, may have opted for the closure after accepting the decision of the Canary Islands Health Service, which rejected the last option being worked on by the previous PSOE government group with the Health Department, so that a new health centre could be established in the Ten-Bel tower.”
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In a statement released yesterday, the socialists expressed that “residents claim it was a minor incident and the provided images indicate that the facilities are in good condition”.
