The municipal nursing home garachico consolidates its recovery and economic stability. The closing of the financial year of 2022, with a surplus of €253,000It is proof, in the opinion of the mayor, Jose Heriberto Gonzalez (C.C.)that the accounts have been cleared up and the cost of operating the so-called Nuestra Señora de la Concepción de Garachico Nursing Home Hospital has finally balanced. In González’s opinion, the times of lack of resources and threats of closure are behind us, and financing is guaranteed after signing a new agreement with the Institute of Social and Socio-Health Care (IASS).
The positive balance of 2022 also allows this municipal residence for the elderly to accumulate savings of almost 420,000 euros, which will allow to assume the investments and extraordinary expenses that may arise in the future. Gone are the times when annual losses were around 50,000 euros.
the nuns of the Order of Saint Vincent de Paul abandoned, at the end of 2012, the management of this center, for which reason the municipal geriatric garachico entered into a serious crisis and experienced significant economic difficulties that were about to end in a definitive closure in 2015. Since then, the support of the council of Tenerife Through the IASS, it has been key for the center to be economically viable, through the concertation of places.
In addition, last January, the Council of Tenerifethrough the IASSput out to tender for about 9 million euros the new socio-sanitary center, called to replace the current nursing home and increase the offer of available places from just 41 to about 115. A transfer that will arrive with some healthy accounts. This project is an old desire of Garachico, whose town hall ceded in March 2021 to the Cabildo de Tenerife a plot of 3,400 square meters in the urbanization El Lamero for the construction of this new geriatric residence, which It will be equipped with 100 residential places and 15 day centers.
This municipal plot ceded to the Cabildo, which is located next to the sports hall and very close to the current residence, will house a building with a capacity for 100 beds for the elderly with a second and third degree of recognized dependency. For the Government of Garachico (CC)the transfer of the municipal nursing home is a necessity because it is located in a 16th century building that cannot be expanded or better adapted to the needs of its 41 residents.
Record surplus of the Garachiquense City Council
José Heriberto González has also highlighted these days the liquidation of the Garachico City Council budget, which in 2022 “has resulted in a record surplus of 837,000 euros, which allows the remaining positive treasury (municipal savings) to be now in figures close to 1 million euros”. According to the nationalist president, “workers of the Intervention department, who have been in that position for many years, describe the result as historic.”
