The construction site of the new hospital has long been a source of exasperation and heartbreak to residents in the South of Tenerife. While it sits there as dead as any ghost town, residents in the South are sent North to join increasingly long queues for treatment up there.
Forward appointments at the current clinic at the Mahon site are for months in the future. My boy has a squinting habit. He peers from under his furrowed brow like a mouse keeking from under a rock and while I suspect this is a habit he’s picked up from watching me squint myopically at the television, I still need to know for sure. There was a news story not so long ago on a little girl who looked perfectly normal, except that in one photograph of her the light reflects differently from one of her eyes. Luckily this was noticed and the girl examined by doctors who found and treated a brain tumour.
With this story stored away in my memory box I now have the image of a plum-sized malignancy growing silently in my boy’s head. But that’s all right. I’ve got an appointment for him in May.
May?
You always have the option to go private, which in this case I did. It cost me €90 and three hours of my time at Clinica Verde for an eye specialist to tell me that my boy’s vision is 20/20, there are no sinister shadows lurking behind his eyes and that his squinting is most likely caused by a dust allergy which is irritating his eyelids. Given that I suppose they will tell me the same thing in May, he would have suffered unnecessary discomfort till then.
Anyway, rumblings from on high indicate that whatever problems caused the close down of the El Mahon obra seem to have been resolved. Work is due to start again and to be completed sometime in 2011.
About bloody time!
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