The Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC), attached to the public company Gestión de Servicio para la Salud y Seguridad en Canarias and dependent on the Ministry of Health, registered 24,067 incidents in Lanzarote in 2023, which is 706 more than the previous year. 12,808 of these cases corresponded to health emergency situations.
As for the people who needed some type of health care or transfer to a medical care center, they amounted to 23,283, which represents an increase of 2.15% in relation to 2022. Of the total requests for help, 4,460 were related to accidents, whether traffic, domestic or other, and the rest with illness, with a total of 19,607. All were attended to initially by the health coordinators, medical and nursing professionals, from the operating rooms themselves, and, subsequently, after the health assessment and, if necessary, by the professional staff of the different mobile resources activated by the SUC resource managers.
Regarding the activity in the Archipelago, the SUC assisted a total of 346,359 people last year, with December being the month in which the highest number of assistances was carried out, reaching 33,339. As for the incidents registered, which may be related to one or more requests for help, they reached a total of 359,020. Most of them, 82.7%, were related to cases of illness, 14.1% to accidents, whether traffic, work or other, and 3.2% to interhospital transport services.