The Council of Tenerife has unblocked the planning problems to build the future Hospital de la Santísima Trinidad social-health center, which had not been able to start despite having been announced on several occasions “because urban planning regulations prohibited building it where it was planned,” the island president confirmed yesterday, Peter Martin.
In statements to Televisión Canaria, Martín added that this week an agreement was reached in the Island Government Council “which has allowed to solve the problem from the administrative point of view and start the process to execute the works”, of the new residence elderly in the urbanization La Boruga.
The Cabildo approved in 2019 an investment of more than 9 million euros for this infrastructure, located on a plot of 27,000 square meters, which will have capacity for 99 residential places and 20 daytime places.
This is a highly demanded resource by citizens, especially since 2013 when the Hospital Santísima Trinidad had to be evacuated after the floor of one of the rooms in the building collapsed, an infrastructure of great antiquity that, despite the reforms, with the passage of time was losing functionality to house long-stay geriatric patients.
As a consequence, the 99 users and the staff of the old one were temporarily transferred to the Centro Sociosanitary del Norte, in Buen Paso, in Icod de los Vinos, which has long-stay geriatric beds.
The new socio-health center in La Orotava will allow the resource to be recovered and “an entire floor of the Hospital del Norte will be free for new services that benefit the citizens of this part of the island,” Pedro Martín stressed.
