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The health minister, Caroline Dariashas highlighted the expansion and improvement in the protection of children’s health that will mean the new vaccination schedule for life 2023, recently approved by the Interterritorial Council of the SNS, and which includes three new vaccines for the youngest.

This was underlined during his speech by the delivery of the Simple Cross of the Civil Health Order to the pediatrician María Teresa Cotonat in Valverde (El Hierro), in an act that he presided over together with the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres.

As Darias has recalled, The lifelong vaccination schedule includes the vaccine against meningococcus B, the vaccine against human papilloma (HPV) for both boys and girls from 12 years of age, as well as the flu vaccine for the entire child population and not only to risk groups as up to now.

This is, the minister emphasized, the most extensive vaccination schedule that the SNS has had and represents a sample of the commitment of the Government of Spain, with the protection of the health of children, a decisive stage that requires special attention in the health field for the proper development of people.

Primary care in rural and insular areas

Carolina Darias has also reaffirmed the commitment of the Government of Spain with the improvement of Primary Care throughout the territory and, singularly, in the rural and insular area, in the case of El Hierro.

In this sense, it has highlighted the development, through the 2022-2023 Action Plan, of incentives to attract and retain positions that are difficult to fill; a matter for which a specific working group has already been created with all the autonomous communities.

Along the same lines, he referred to the more than 1,000 million euros that the Government will allocate between 2022 and 2023 to Primary Care through the General State Budgetwith key items for digitization or the 88 million of the Oral Health Plan.

Likewise, he has referred to the first Plan for the Improvement of Infrastructures and Equipment in Primary Care such as health centers and clinics, endowed with 406 million euros in 2023, and the more than 354 million euros that will be allocated between 2022 and 2023 , to the development of the Primary Care Action Plan.

The Minister of Health also recalled the efforts made to improve the conditions of health professionals with the greatest stabilization of all time in the SNS, which will entail the establishment of more than 67,000 public places.

Carolina Darias also made reference to the important boost that the Government of Spain is carrying out in terms of health technology, thanks to the ‘Next Generation’ funds of the High Technology Investment Plan (INVEAT Plan) included in the Recovery Plan, Transformation and Resilience.

A pioneering plan promoted by the Government of Spain that is allowing renew and/or expand a total of 851 teams throughout the country with an investment of more than 795 million euros and that in the case of the Canary Islands it materializes in a total of 40 teams and an investment of more than 38.5 million euros.

As the Minister of Health recalled, it also has an impact on the island of El Hierro, which for the first time in its history will have an MRI at the Hospital Insular Nuestra Señora de los Reyes and which, among other benefits, will avoid the current displacements of patients to the island of Tenerife.

In short, Darias pointed out, health care is a basic need to ensure quality of life and allow people to develop and have opportunities wherever they live.

one more blacksmith

María Teresa Cotonat is a renowned pediatrician with more than 34 years of professional practice. Born in Barcelona, ​​she arrived on the island of El Hierro in 2000, and, as the Minister of Health has pointed out, today she is “one more from El Hierro”. As a pediatrician, Dr. Cotonat cares for more than 1,000 boys and girls on the island of El Hierro.

As Minister Darias has remarked, Cotonat stands out for his dedication and generosity in his treatment of patients, to whom he does not hesitate to provide his private mobile phone number and to those whom he visits personally when they need admission to the Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria University Hospital. . She is also a benchmark in humanitarian work and health care for migrant minors, especially due to her collaboration with the Red Cross between 2006 and 2009 both in La Restinga and in the CATE in Echedo.

Along with the Minister of Health and the President of the Canary Islands, the Government delegate in the autonomous community, Anselmo Pestana; the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo; the president of the Cabildo de El Hierro, Alpidio Armas; the insular director of the AGE in El Hierro, José Carlos Hernández; and the accidental mayor of Valverde, Carlos Brito.