More residents from the south of Gran Canaria go to the Hospital Insular each year than to the slot machines at the Holiday World in Maspalomas. For the residents of the south of Gran Canaria it is a pleasure to visit the Maternal and Child hospital complex of the Canarian Health Service. An exciting experience: the ordeal of crime in Las Palmas, a city always uncomfortable for the people of this region, where the neighbors always feel like deportees, and therefore almost everyone who can avoid it. But there is something impossible for thousands of families every day: the Maternal and Child Complex and Insular Hospital of Las Palmas.
Rates go up. Is Putin to blame for invading Ukraine, as happens with everything? No. It's because a French group called Índigo has purchased the management company, Parkia, which is supposed to ask for consent from the Canarian Health Service before purchasing since it is a concession. It is also true that I would ask the same honorable entity that is now being investigated by the European Public Prosecutor's Office for being incapable of ensuring that they do not defraud them of 4,3 million euros with false masks due to Covid19. One talks about family members, but the reader can imagine the fortune that goes to patients' companions because the families are working.
Thus, to know who is involved in all this, you have to refer to someone specific: Sébastien Fraisse, 51, a former official at the French Ministry of Development and then in the French motorway sector at Vinci Autoroutes, joined the group in October 2012 as general director of the Índigo group since November 2022. Since 2023 he has been the executive president of the group, the master of the parking lot of the Hospital Insular de Gran Canaria. Vinci is building the Chira Soria hydroelectric plant, the largest energy project currently in Europe after the blasting of Nord Stream 2.
The price of parking is becoming more and more expensive for this reason: Parkia (owned by Australian fund Igneo Infrastructure Partners) It needed to package in 2024 to squeeze the sale at an attractive price. Who does all this affect? to the multimillionaire users of the Canarian public health system. He office in Madrid that has managed this matter is Cuatrecasas. Complaints to: the intensive care doctor José Blanco, managing director of the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil, who has a master's degree in business management and a university course specializing in health management in intensive medicine.
Many users in the south of Gran Canaria describe the parking prices as unviable and absurd, taking into account that they have to use it during the time they are visiting patients or working. Many workers at the Gran Canaria Insular and Maternal and Child Hospital have been complaining about this situation for years and in 2024, they have already protested about the new rate increases. If they were already expensive in themselves, they once again punish those who by necessity have to go to these health centers and find themselves unable to use the blue zones due to their lack of free and always occupied places; To this we add how difficult it is to park around the health center.
The Intersindical Canaria (IC) union states that "it is not acceptable (pun intended) that a public hospital parking lot, which is usually used by people who have fewer resources, has such abusive prices, regardless of who manages it," maintains Ruymán Pérez (IC). He says that every year they have seen that the price of their parking passes continue to rise and that it is something that they already describe as "shameful amounts." Going into the details, Cuatrecasas has advised Allianz, Carlyle and Metlife in the debt refinancing process of Parkia, a parking subsidiary of Igneo Infrastructure Partners, the infrastructure division of the Australian fund First Sentier. The The operation, carried out through a private bond issue and subject to English law, has amounted to 370 million euros.
