The Investigating Court No. 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has agreed to file the open case against the administrative procedure launched by the Institute of Social and Socio-Sanitary Care (IASS) to transfer patients from the Febles Campos hospital to new facilities , more appropriate and modern. The court order confirms that “there is no criminal evidence to support the complaint filed by the company’s works committee and the Canary Islands Workers’ Assembly Union.” The insular president, Pedro Martín, assures that the ruling “demonstrates that this lawsuit, presented and led by José Luis Gutiérrez, is part of a malicious strategy.”
Martín emphasizes that the operation “was initiated against the current island government from the beginning of the mandate with the aim of stopping our management at all costs and goes directly against the interests of the patients of Febles Campos, the main victims of this process. ».
The president regrets that “the representative of the works council of the IASS has stopped the procedure with complaints so that the users of the Febles Campos have a decent place in which they can be treated as they need.”
“It is surprising – he adds – that Gutiérrez did not say anything in the previous stage, in which there were very questionable matters. His strategy is to frighten the workers with threats and the politicians with complaints. It doesn’t work with us.”
Martín concludes: «He denounced us (Gutiérrez) with invented arguments, because we wanted a new building where we could attend with dignity to the most vulnerable elderly and those in a more delicate health situation. It seems despicable to me to paralyze the transfer just to try to force the Cabildo to grant him personal privileges within the company.
The counselor
The insular counselor of Social Action, Marián Franquet, stresses that the main victims are the elderly. “The only thing that this lawsuit has achieved is to reduce the quality of life of these people and delay the work for a year to provide a worthy solution to the users of the Febles Campos.”
Franquet stresses: «We are not going to stop working to give the elders of Febles Campos the best conditions». Franquet values ”the rigorous work of the IASS professionals, when presenting all the technical reports.”
The order endorses the decision of the current island government to reject the alternative proposed by the IASS in the previous mandate to acquire, for 29 million euros, a building owned by businessman Antonio Plasencia. According to the order, “it does not seem illogical to think that [el gobierno actual] had doubts in the acquisition of such a controversial property given the origin and the way in which it is incorporated into the assets of Santa Cruz, after a long negotiation process in which it is provided as payment by the former owner and, also , convicted and imprisoned for this cause» (Las Teresitas case).
The brief states that “it seems to be conveyed that the plaintiff only calls into question the management, procedures, projects, works and solutions to this serious social problem promoted by the government team contrary to the one represented in this case by the private accusation.”
