The Canary Emergency Service (SUC), attached to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, has responded, in the first six months of 2016, to 8,270 health incidents on the island of Lanzarote, 2.87% more than the same period of the previous year. Of these, half were classified as emergencies, with imminent danger to people's lives.
This activity means that the SUC has had to assist 8,264 people on the island who have been involved in the aforementioned incidents, which represents 5.77% of the total number of affected people attended by the Canary Emergency Service in the Archipelago during the same period.
Of all the assistance provided by the SUC in this period, it should be noted that more than 6,673 were related to different types of illness and almost 1,600 to accidents.
If we analyze the data by type of service, we can say that the highest number of incidents to which a response was given in Lanzarote, specifically 4,124, were emergency situations, followed by emergencies that reached the number of 2,232. Likewise, 796 consultations were attended and 745 urgent health transport services were carried out, while secondary transport between health or hospital centers exceeded 373.
Regarding the general activity throughout the archipelago, the SUC has intervened, in the first semester of the year, in 143,218 incidents that have taken place in the different islands of the Archipelago and in which 143,135 people have been involved who have needed some type of assistance from the health personnel of this service.
