The Canary Emergency Service (SUC), attached to the public company Service Management for Health and Safety in the Canary Islands and dependent on the Ministry of Health, provided a total of 24,566 healthcare assists in Lanzarote during 2025, almost 4% more than the previous year.
Most of these interventions corresponded to assistance for illness, which experienced a rise of just over 2% compared to 2024. However, the greatest growth occurred in the area of accidents, with 5,146 actions, which represents an increase of almost 12% compared to the previous year. In this section, the SUC, in addition to providing assistance to those injured in traffic accidents, also intervened in sports, work, or domestic ones.
Of the total healthcare assistance provided by SUC professionals, on 13,234 occasions the lives of those affected were in danger, that is, health emergency situations that required immediate intervention. Next, with just over 6,000 cases, are urgent situations which, although relevant, allowed SUC health coordinators -doctors and nurses- to establish action priorities to offer a swift and adequate response to those affected based on the severity of their condition.
On the other hand, SUC professionals handled more than 2,000 health consultations coming from this island that were resolved from the emergency rooms themselves, through teleassistance, without the need to deploy mobile resources.
Regarding the people attended by the Canarian Emergency Service on the island of Lanzarote, throughout 2025 a total of 23,657 affected received assistance, a figure that exceeds by just over 3% that recorded in 2024.
Regional activity in 2025
The SUC assisted 346,434 people last year in the Canary Islands, 1% more compared to those attended in 2024, which totaled 343,005, and intervened in a total of 360,367 incidents that were related to one or more requests for help.
Of these incidents, 81.2% corresponded to cases of illness and medical consultations with 292,681; 3.3% to sanitary transport services with 11,790 incidents; and 15.5% with a total of 55,896 to accidents of various types.
To respond to this out-of-hospital care demand, the SUC activated its resources on 316,712 occasions, with basic life support ambulances registering the highest number of activations with 81.3% of the total. Next, they are followed by the sanitized ambulances which were activated on 18,546 occasions (5.9%) and the medicalized ambulances which performed 17,649 services (5.6%). The rest of the resources activated by this service were the medicalized helicopters and plane, as well as medical assistance vehicles, home care, health coordination and rapid intervention and the Primary Care staff from the different health centers of the islands.
Regarding the transfer of affected individuals, public hospitals were the destination for most of them, reaching 61% of the cases, followed by Primary Care centers with 15.9% and private clinics with 8.2%. The rest, up to 14.9%, were discharged at the place of assistance.