María José Belda highlights that the IASS will also lead “the creation of the first specific sessions on Dual Pathology in Tenerife, promoting training aimed at families and professionals in the sector on the Island.”
The Sí Podemos Canarias group in the Island Council, in the last Plenary Commission of the Presidency and Social Action of the island corporation, achieved institutional agreement on its motion for the institution to study the implementation of a pilot residential center for the care of Dual Pathology in Tenerife, with preference in one of the properties owned by the Island Council or others appropriate for this purpose. Likewise, it was agreed that the Institute of Social and Socio-Health Care (IASS) will lead the creation of the first specific conferences on this matter in Tenerife.
María José Belda, island councilor and spokesperson for the Sí Podemos Canarias coalition, shows her group's satisfaction with this approval and defends the importance of Tenerife "being able to have for the first time a pilot residential center to care for people with Dual Pathology, so that said location serves to help the recovery and training of people who have been homeless and meet said diagnosis."
Belda affirms that it was very necessary for “our proposal to prosper, so that the peculiarities of this pathology on the Island, which combines the presence of an addiction with a mental health problem, are correctly addressed.” With the creation of the first specific sessions on Dual Pathology that the Cabildo will promote through the IASS, Belda highlights that "the corporation's commitment to promoting training aimed at families and professionals in the sector in Tenerife is better realized, this being something necessary to launch these specific resources and their proper functioning, which to date have not existed in this province."
Sí Podemos Canarias has managed to make these sessions “free and in person or by videoconference”. "This training will serve to raise awareness of the importance of different multidisciplinary therapeutic treatments, as well as deepen the knowledge of this pathology and its consequences when it is not treated adequately; there are many families who, until now, have not known how to address this issue, since it has been treated in different ways."
María José Belda has stressed the "imperative need we have to have a service like this, since in the last 30 years no attention has been paid to Dual Pathology in Tenerife and we have many deficiencies with respect to some of the other islands, such as Gran Canaria, in this sense; all this delay affects many families and people who are suffering the consequences of not having the adequate treatment they deserve."
