Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Apr 12 (EFE) that attends to the inhabitants of the municipality itself, Ingenio, Agüimes, San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Mogán”.
This was announced this Wednesday in a statement by the president of the formation and candidate for Parliament for Gran Canaria, Lucas Bravo de Laguna, who considers that the hospital pressure suffered by this island “is unbearable.”
The Canary Islands is at the bottom of day hospital posts, with 23.6 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to the national average which is almost double, 41.6, and among the last three autonomous communities in hospital beds, with 2 per thousand inhabitants, compared to the 2.4 average in Spain, “unacceptable” data, according to Bravo de Laguna, who wonders “how is it possible that we have fewer beds than Namibia, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea or Tonga ”, not to mention Gabon, which has more than triple that of us”.
Although these indicators affect the entire Canary Islands, in his opinion, “it must be taken into account that there is a distortion in the data by islands, since when talking about Tenerife and Gran Canaria, it is not taken into account that Gran Canaria receives many patients of the two non-capital islands with the largest number of inhabitants, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, and which, in addition, in certain units, receives patients from all over the archipelago, so that the number of beds per thousand inhabitants is lower than that reported by the official data”, hence the need for beds in Gran Canaria becomes more pressing.
On the geographical aspect, Bravo de Laguna has highlighted that in Gran Canaria the hospitals are concentrated in its capital, and wonders “how many people have died for not arriving on time to the hospital because they live in the south, something that does not happen in Tenerife, that it has a hospital in the south of the island, and that, moreover, is now facing a considerable expansion”.
“Obviously, the presence of private centers has mitigated the distance factor, but they do not have the scale of a public hospital and do not cover the care of the majority of the southern population, who continue to travel to the Insular Hospital or the Maternal and Child Hospital” , asserts.
For Unidos por Gran Canaria, this work, together with the proposal by this same formation in March of last year, consisting of building a large geriatric hospital where the abandoned Casa del Niño is located today, would put an end to the health care problems suffered by the island.
Lucas Bravo de Laguna insists that “it is not about social and health care places, something for which his party has also provided novel solutions, in June 2022, with a mixed formula of public and private investment that, in addition, would create a new niche for tourism, that of those who want to spend their retirement enjoying the climate that Gran Canaria offers”.
Regarding personnel needs, United for Gran Canaria has reported that next week “it will announce a measure that will end this problem and the frustration of many people who have not seen their professional dreams come true,” the note added. EFE
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