The Plenary of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria has unanimously endorsed the proposals of Pequeño Valientethe Canarian association for research and care for children with cancer, to relieve pressure on the island’s Hospital Oncology Unit. Last Friday, in the plenary session corresponding to the month of May, all the political groups of the corporation joined the request of this organization, which was led by the president of the insular government, Antonio Morales, in the Accounts Reporting section .
The three groups of the tripartite pact -NC, PSOE and Sí Podemos- and the three opposition parties -PP, UxGC-CC and Ciudadanos- showed their strong support for the initiative proposed by Little Brave to improve the conditions of children who suffer from this disease on the island, as well as the request of the Cabildo de Tenerife to have a Children’s Oncology Unit, which would reduce the pressure on the existing places in Gran Canaria.
The island government detailed yesterday in a note that President Antonio Morales indicated that all the groups had expressed their support for the two proposals, that are considered compatible or complementary. On the one hand, to support the request made from Tenerife that there may be a Children’s Oncology Unit in the hospitals on said island, which “will allow the pressure on the existing unit in Gran Canaria to be lightened.”
And on the other hand, «that the works of the new Oncology plant to be built in the Maternal and Child Complex of Gran Canaria be accelerated, and that while this situation occurs, that there be a space enabled for boys and girls who may be affected during the works.
“This is how they have asked us and this is how it was transferred to the Board of Spokespersons, in which the groups stated that they agreed,” Morales said during the plenary session, so that in this way “the support of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria is transferred to them. and of all the political groups that are represented in this Corporation in relation to speeding up the works in the Materno Infantil de Gran Canaria and that, while they are being carried out, there may be a space in adequate conditions. To this is added that, on the other hand, “there may be an Oncology Unit in Tenerife” due to the existing demand and the difficulties caused by having to travel from other islands to Gran Canaria.
