Las Palmas De Gran Canaria (EFE).- The president of the Canary Islands and PSOE candidate for re-election, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced this Saturday a bill for the next legislature that will aim to guarantee waiting times in Health Canaria and thus lower the delays.
In the Canary Islands, the number of people waiting to be operated on in public health grew by 12.53% last year, to stand at 34,556 as of December 31 (3,854 more), with an average wait of five months and six days, twelve days more than in 2021, according to data from the Canary Islands Health Service.
During a meeting of his party in which the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, also spoke, Torres insisted on the need to “continue to improve health” and get closer to the average wait for the rest of the autonomous communities.
“We have to lower the delay and the waiting lists to get closer to the average. And to fulfill that commitment we will make a bill to comply with the waiting times by law”, added the Canarian president.
During the rally, Torres pointed out that his party is one of loyalty and stability and celebrated that Sánchez was the president “who has visited the Canary Islands the most”.
At a regional level, the president of the Canary Islands has assured that education must also be improved and has promised to hire more teachers to lower the ratios in the classrooms “even though we are below the average,” he pointed out.
He has also expressed that social rights must be improved and a “definitive” socio-sanitary infrastructure plan that has not existed until now.
Ángel Víctor Torres has also assessed the employment figures, better than when he took office, with unemployment at 17% compared to 21% in 2019.
“If we talk about Education we have an 11% dropout rate. When we arrived it was at 19%”, highlighted the also general secretary of the Canary Islands socialists, who has considered the advances in education from 0 to 3 years “inalienable”, which is “public and free on all the islands”.
For his part, the PSOE candidate for the island council, Augusto Hidalgo, has called for continuing the socialist legacy of recent years and has considered that the Spanish and Canary Islands right “has gone wild” and has become “more radical.”
He has highlighted the advances represented by the increases in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage, the implementation of the Minimum Vital Income or the increase in pensions based on the rise in the CPI.
“We have to be the containment dam of the right and the ultra-right,” Hidalgo said.
Likewise, the socialist candidate for mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Carolina Darias, has affirmed that socialism represents in her city “transformation and improvements” in people’s lives.
“The PSOE is the party that has contributed the most to the welfare state and to modernizing Spain,” said Darias, who said that they are touring the city “at street level and neighborhood by neighborhood.”
Regarding his city project, he has insisted that the municipality must improve its services to citizens and has promised that in each district there will be, for example, a police station or sufficient parking lots.
He has also referred to a “healthier” city with safe environments that promote “physical, emotional and social well-being”, and that this is “in line with the demography of the city” and taking into account children and adolescents.
He has also spoken of a “more accessible” city where sustainability, has abounded, is not debatable.
In this sense, he has announced that the city will have low emission and less pollution zones, with housing as the fundamental axis, he concluded. EFE