Tenerife Weekly
  • Home
  • About
  • El Diario
  • Diario de Avisos
  • El Dia
  • Europa Press
  • La Laguna
  • El Digital Sur
  • Atlantico
  • Press Releases
  • Essentials
  • Blog
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About
  • El Diario
  • Diario de Avisos
  • El Dia
  • Europa Press
  • La Laguna
  • El Digital Sur
  • Atlantico
  • Press Releases
  • Essentials
  • Blog
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
Tenerife Weekly
No Result
View All Result
Home El Dia

7,100 people from Tenerife are waiting for a place in public health centers

December 1, 2021
in El Dia
Reading Time: 4 mins read
0
7,100 people from Tenerife are waiting for a place in public health centers
3
SHARES
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


More than 7,000 islanders wait for a public square in the centers of social and health assistance from Tenerife. The figure, which has just been revealed by Marián Franquet, Minister of Social Action of the Tenerife Corporation, is the largest of the balances of the waiting lists for socio-sanitary places on the island. Franquet broke down these data in the Plenary Commission. The greatest demand is concentrated in the section of personal autonomy, with 4,000 applicants awaiting a vacancy in the island centers. It is followed by older, with 842 waiting for a daytime place and 1,300 for a residential. On telecare there are 600 islanders pending attention, while in disability there are 100 applicants awaiting daytime assistance and 215 from a residential plaza. In total, 7,100 Tenerife residents with total or partial dependence awaiting public assistance.

The last balance of the waiting lists for socio-sanitary places in Tenerife doubles the previous one provided by Marián Franquet herself. In February, the head of the Insular Institute for Social and Social Health Care (IASS) assured that there were “more than 3,000 people from Tenerife” waiting for the public attention offered by the centers of the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Government of the Canary Islands. Franquet clarified in the last Plenary Committee that this new figure arises from the sum of two waiting lists, the one associated with the dependency policies of the regional Executive and another of the IASS. The socialist minister clarified that “important work” had to be carried out to “unify these two access doors” to the health care facilities of Tenerife in order to know the real number of applicants.

“The places that are offered do not meet the real needs of the island’s population”

Águeda Fumero – Insular Councilor of the PP


decoration

Franquet detailed the new calculation of the socio-sanitary waiting lists in response to a question asked by the councilor of the Popular Party Águeda Fumero, who expressed her concern at the high number of people from Tenerife waiting for a public square. Fumero demanded “agile responses from this administration to solve this problem that generally affects very vulnerable sectors of the population, due to the historical lack of planning that different governments have carried out in relation to this area.” The popular counselor assured that the number of social and healthcare places offered in Tenerife “does not meet the real needs of the population” and referred to the Health Infrastructure Plan of the Canary Islands Government as “a document that is born out of date”, since “although the 100% of the places provided for in said Plan, they are not enough to attend to all the people who are waiting to enter the island’s social and health system ».

According to the official website of the Tenerife Insular Institute for Social and Socio-Health Care, «the Dependency Care Unit is responsible for managing the network of day and residential centers, elderly dependents and people with disabilities in Tenerife, which add up to around 4,000 places ». The Health Infrastructure Plan 2017-2023 foresees 2,655 new social health care places for Tenerife, of which 2,188 are residential and 482 are day-stay. The sum of existing and planned (6,655) is not enough to meet all the demand that currently exists on the Island.

Fumero stressed in a press release that “this is a demand that will never stop and we need the administration to work with adequate provision so as not to worsen the situation of vulnerability of the population that requires these services.” As an example, Águeda Fumero put on the table the results of a recent study that reveals that up to 341 people are hospitalized in the Canary Islands without their health situation requiring it, “simply because they cannot be inserted into the island’s social-health care system” . Added to this is the fact that, as the Minister Marián Franquet herself recognized in September, “in Tenerife there are empty social-health places”, something that for Fumero “is the direct responsibility of the Cabildo and shows a lack of efficient management of public resources in this matter ».

  • THE NUMBERS

    4,000 Personal autonomy

    Some 4,000 people from Tenerife are on the waiting list for public places for social health care in the section on personal autonomy, as revealed by the Cabildo de Tenerife.

    2,142 Seniors

    2,142 is the total number of elderly people from Tenerife who wait for a place in the public health centers of Tenerife, 1,300 for residential places and 842 for daytime ones.

    600 Telecare

    A total of 600 people from Tenerife are waiting for assistance through telecare, as revealed by the Councilor for Social Action of the Cabildo de Tenerife in the last Plenary Commission.

    315 Disability

    315 Tenerife residents with some type of recognized disability are waiting for public assistance places on the island, 100 for day care and 215 for residential care.



Source link

Related Posts

PSOE TENERIFE | PSOE proposes declaring an emergency due to ineffectiveness in the Cabildo of Tenerife and opposes the forestry penny.
El Dia

PSOE TENERIFE | PSOE proposes declaring an emergency due to ineffectiveness in the Cabildo of Tenerife and opposes the forestry penny.

July 17, 2025
Endured 12 Hours of Assaults and Feared Her Ex-Boyfriend Would Kill Her
El Dia

Endured 12 Hours of Assaults and Feared Her Ex-Boyfriend Would Kill Her

July 17, 2025
TLP Events 2025 | TLP Tenerife 2025 revs up with a motorbike route
El Dia

TLP Events 2025 | TLP Tenerife 2025 revs up with a motorbike route

July 16, 2025
No Result
View All Result

Click Image to Join Community

Tenerife Forum Community

Previous News

The Santa Rosalía cemetery, in Igueste de San Andrés, wants to stop being unique

The Santa Rosalía cemetery, in Igueste de San Andrés, wants to stop being unique

3 years ago
The illegal excursion business makes a killing in the South of Tenerife without official control

The illegal excursion business makes a killing in the South of Tenerife without official control

2 years ago
The Cabildo de Tenerife will complete the third phase of the Insular Telecommunications Ring in weeks

The Cabildo de Tenerife will complete the third phase of the Insular Telecommunications Ring in weeks

3 years ago
Three Hecansa students specialize in R&D applied to cooking at the ‘Mugaritz’ restaurant

Three Hecansa students specialize in R&D applied to cooking at the ‘Mugaritz’ restaurant

3 years ago
The 6.6 million for social emergency will be distributed before the end of the month

The 6.6 million for social emergency will be distributed before the end of the month

4 years ago
STUDENT RENTAL TENERIFE |  Tenerife, among the most expensive places in Spain to rent student rooms

STUDENT RENTAL TENERIFE | Tenerife, among the most expensive places in Spain to rent student rooms

2 years ago
No Result
View All Result

News Highlights

The Leal Theatre presents a musical journey for all audiences this weekend.

Unions announce new meetings to resolve the employment dispute at the Tenerife Metropolitano.

Santa Cruz closes the Las Mesas park due to wildfire risk.

A Santa Cruz resident films a group of youths engaged in vandalism: “They’re wrecking the area and shouting.”

The City of Justice in Santa Cruz won’t be ready “in two, four, or even five years.”

Over 500 residents of Laguna enjoy summer activities organised by Citizen Participation

Trending News

Our Lady of Mount Carmel (and III)
La Laguna

Our Lady of Mount Carmel (and III)

by Admin
July 18, 2025
0

Explanation of the Promise: Many Popes, saints, and Catholic theologians have explained that, according to this promise,...

The tram strike committee resumes negotiations with Metropolitano de Tenerife.

The tram strike committee resumes negotiations with Metropolitano de Tenerife.

July 18, 2025
Sardà and Valdano Reflect on Maturity in a CaixaBank Discussion in Tenerife

Sardà and Valdano Reflect on Maturity in a CaixaBank Discussion in Tenerife

July 17, 2025
The Leal Theatre presents a musical journey for all audiences this weekend.

The Leal Theatre presents a musical journey for all audiences this weekend.

July 17, 2025
Unions announce new meetings to resolve the employment dispute at the Tenerife Metropolitano.

Unions announce new meetings to resolve the employment dispute at the Tenerife Metropolitano.

July 17, 2025
Tenerife Weekly

© 2025 Tenerife Weekly

Navigate Site

  • Tenerife Forum
  • Tenerife Travel Shop
  • Ask Tenerife
  • Guide
  • Adobe
  • Linkedin
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About
  • El Diario
  • Diario de Avisos
  • El Dia
  • Europa Press
  • La Laguna
  • El Digital Sur
  • Atlantico
  • Press Releases
  • Essentials
  • Blog
  • Contact

© 2025 Tenerife Weekly