·Vidina Espino calls it shameful to allocate five million more to the RTVC, instead of using that money to provide masks to the poorest families
Canary Islands, Tuesday, September 22, 2020. The spokesperson for Ciudadanos (Cs) in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Vidina Espino, has asked this Tuesday the Minister of Health of the Canary Islands Government, Blas Trujillo, to “abandon inaction” in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and “truly strengthen Primary Care and the Emergency services of the Islands.”
Vidina Espino has taken advantage of the appearance of the head of Health in the plenary session held by Parliament to warn him that "the solution is not to deny reality and fall into triumphalism, but to face it with courage and making decisions."
In this sense, he has given as an example of complacency and fear of adopting measures that "they have not yet implemented PCR in ports and airports or that the Canary Islands have been the last autonomous community to decree the mandatory use of the mask."
The Cs deputy has criticized that the contingency plans announced by Health for Primary and hospital Care "have been based on professionals saying that they are worse and that they cannot cope" or that the Emergencies of some hospitals "have to turn to resident doctors without training and experience to cover sick leave, generating unsustainable situations, as the professionals themselves affirm."
During her intervention, Vidina Espino asked about "the destination of the 158 million euros of covid funds received by the Canary Islands", as well as "if the cases of community transmission of infections registered in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria had also occurred in other places."
The spokesperson for the orange formation has expressed concern about “the situation of the ICUs, given the possibility that they may be overwhelmed in the coming weeks,” and about what is happening at the Maternal and Child Hospital, “where the patients themselves are becoming infected and some of them have died after becoming infected inside the center.”
In reference to the acquisition of material and during a question to the President of the Canary Islands Government, Vidina Espino described it as “shameful” that the Canary Islands Executive is going to allocate five million more euros to this year's budget of the RTVC, instead of using that money to “provide masks to the poorest families, as requested by Parliament through a unanimously approved NLP.”
