Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) increased the SCS budget by 20% and stabilized 12,000 workers in that service.
This is how the counselor has responded to the conveners of this protest, the Association for the Defense of Public Health of the Canary Islands and various social, union and political groups, to whom he has reminded that in 2020 the Canarian economy had a decrease of more than 18 percent cent, a reality that has contrasted with the “very clear and unprecedented commitment” that the regional government has made for the Canary Islands Health Service, by increasing its budget by 20% in the last three years.
In addition, Blas Trujillo has stressed that to solve the problem of “unacceptable and counterproductive temporary employment for reasonable effectiveness and efficiency” suffered by many SCS workers, the regional Executive has made more than 6,000 workers temporary in the last two years and currently stabilizes at 12,000.
The counselor has alluded to the “galloping anemia due to lack of muscle”, a consequence of the “cuts” that followed the financial crisis of 2008, with which the SCS had to face the covid-19 pandemic, to emphasize that the Government chaired by Ángel Víctor Torres has decided to increase its workforce by more than 6,000 jobs given its “obvious need” to face future challenges and the increased demand for post-pandemic care that affects hospitals and health centers, where it has incorporated new services, such as physiology or clinical psychology.
“Not only are we strengthening the SCS budget, but we also want to do more things, such as betting on mental health and early care and research or transplants. No autonomous community does what we are doing ”, she asserted.
Regarding the new pediatric tower of the Maternal and Child University Hospital of the Canary Islands, another of the demands of the organizers of Saturday’s protest, Trujillo stressed that this infrastructure was projected in 2010 with a budget of 15 million euros and was awarded this year with another of 48 million, the imminent start of the works being planned.
Another of the claims alludes to the “hoax” according to which the Government of the Canary Islands wants to privatize the Canary Islands Institute of Hemodonation and Hemotherapy, an autonomous body whose legal nature has not complied with the legal system since 2006, a situation that until now no one has dealt with. regularize, the counselor has said.
In this way, the counselor has denied this supposed privatization claim, against which there is only an intention to “integrate this body in a more efficient and effective way in the SCS”, from the conviction that “the blood has to be in the hands of public health”, he asserted.
For all these reasons, Blas Trujillo has estimated that, “perhaps, the reasons for this claim are others that are not counted.” EFE