The Canarian Foundation 'Umiaya' for the care of sudden death, receives aid of 30 thousand euros
The plenary session of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana city council, held today in the Town Hall of Tunte, approved the granting of subsidies and aid to different entities and organizations for a total of approximately 2,4 million euros.
This aid includes the departments of Social Services, Citizen Participation, Sports, Culture, Events and Celebrations, as well as the nominative subsidies proposed by the Mayor's Office. In this way, around 310 thousand euros are granted for the area of Social Services, a figure similar to Citizen Participation.
For the Department of Sports, the total amount of approved subsidies amounts to 1.291.000 euros, which includes financial support for different clubs and entities linked to this area.
The Department of Culture will receive 56 thousand euros, while the Department of Events and Celebrations will receive 175 thousand euros.
The General Budget for the financial year 2023 also includes nominative subsidies that are considered expressly extendable, if the corresponding budget had not come into force at the beginning of the financial year. The total budget in this chapter amounts to 2.997.000 euros.
Subsidy to 'Umiaya' for sudden death care
On the other hand, the plenary decided to approve the granting of a nominative subsidy to the Canarian Foundation 'Umiaya' for the care of sudden death, for an amount of 30 thousand euros.
As explained by Mayor Conchi Narváez, “the primary objective of the Canarian Umiaya Foundation is to improve the quality of life of people affected by sudden death, through the areas of prevention, health and psychosocial care, and raising awareness among the population. of our municipality, as well as affected by the mutation
of Catecholamine Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, whose particularity is that all those affected are linked to the same family stem originating from this Municipality.
What the Foundation aims to do is provide a rapid response to the priority needs of the affected people by providing them with basic and urgent care when social and health emergency situations occur.
