SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 27. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Common Deputy, Rafael Yanes, and the first deputy of the Common Provincial Council, Felipe Afonso, have met with the president of the Association of People with Deafblindness of the Canary Islands (Asocide), Antonio Acosta, and the interpreter Eva Hernández on the occasion of the International Day of Deafblind People
Rafael Yanes presented them with the Extraordinary Report on the Situation of the System for Autonomy and Dependency Care in the Canary Islands referring to the year 2021, in which ASOCIDE collaborated through contributions and improvement proposals to change the situation of Dependency in the islands .
The president of ASOCIDE assured that the difficulties faced by deafblind people are still the same as they were 30 years ago. “Today we want to be more integrated into society, so we need more resources. However, these are still the same as years ago and this is where our difficulty lies,” he said.
For the Common Deputy, “people who suffer from deafblindness have a very specific disability, so they need to be treated separately from blind people. The world of disability is the main concern of our Institution and, although taking steps every day It gets complicated every day, we are optimistic because of the receptivity that the Public Administration is showing us”.
