SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 1 (EUROPE PRESS) –
Canarian Coalition has denounced the situation currently suffered by the Hospital del Sur de Tenerife, “an infrastructure that is totally underused, which has remained in a large office and not in the third-level hospital that the South Region of the Island needs “. For this reason, the nationalist party sees it necessary for it to be “at the same level” as the island’s reference hospitals, such as La Candelaria and the HUC.
The National Secretary General of the CC-PNC and Senator for the Autonomous Community, Fernando Clavijo; the Secretary of Organization of CC de Tenerife and regional deputy, Rosa Dávila; The spokesman for the Nationalist Group in the Cabildo of Tenerife, Carlos Alonso, and the mayor of Granadilla de Abona, José Domingo Regalado, held a meeting this morning with representatives of the Platform for the Public Hospital of the South.
The meeting served to analyze the situation of this infrastructure and to demand that the Government of Ángel Víctor Torres set up “a complete hospital” for this area of the island, to alleviate waiting lists and to respond to the different pathologies.
Fernando Clavijo lamented that in the last three years “almost nothing has been advanced”. “All the work that allowed the opening of this hospital and all the resources that were allocated and the infrastructure planned to make it a tertiary level, because in these three years almost nothing has been advanced,” said Clavijo.
The leader of the Canarian nationalists, who highlighted the role of the platform in all this struggle, denounced that the Hospital’s infrastructure is “totally underutilized” and demanded that the Canarian Executive make a “decisive” commitment to Primary Care and to provide to the Hospital of the necessary professionals so that the citizens of the South do not have to travel to Santa Cruz and La Laguna.
For his part, the mayor of Granadilla de Abona, José Domingo Regalado, stressed that the South of Tenerife “deserves a tertiary-level hospital that is up to the standards of La Candelaria and the HUC.” “We can’t wait any longer for infrastructure,” he said.
The nationalist mayor explained that the South of the Island “has enough population, plus tourism, to have a proper hospital, the hospital that the population of the South deserves.” For this reason, he made it clear that they are not going to stop demanding the hospital that “we deserve.”
The secretary of the Organization of the Canarian Coalition of Tenerife and regional deputy, Rosa Dávila, criticized that the Hospital del Sur “is not advancing”. “Right now it’s like a big office, but it’s not a hospital. It doesn’t serve to relieve waiting lists and doesn’t respond to surgical intervention needs,” she criticized.
The nationalist deputy demanded that the Government of the Canary Islands set up a complete hospital that would alleviate waiting lists and respond to different pathologies. In this sense, she announced that they will continue working with the platform so that the South of Tenerife has a complete hospital.
For his part, Jordi Esplugas, a member of the platform, stressed that they have been claiming a complete hospital for the South of Tenerife for many years. “This is a priority for us. Currently, we have a second-level regional hospital that is far from it. The current needs are much higher and have changed a lot, and the infrastructure needs to improve,” he said.
Bárbara Rodríguez, also a member of the platform, assured that the population of the south “needs a hospital, not a nursing home.” “We want a full-fledged hospital.” In this sense, she regretted that people are being left behind. “That is why we have to ease the waiting lists. We must not abandon people. The people of the south deserve a hospital like the HUC and La Candelaria,” she said.
