The Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital, a center attached to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, has put into operation a high-end portable Computed Tomography (CT) scanner for radiodiagnostic tests.
The portable CT scanner allows for highly complex studies and has numerous advantages, such as high image quality, low radiation dose, and low intravenous contrast, as well as greater safety, since it allows for automatic positioning and continuous monitoring of the patient.
This is a highly automated device that incorporates Artificial Intelligence to improve diagnosis and speeds up tests, facilitating the workflow of technicians with shorter exploration times. It is estimated that it will generate a large volume of activity and will be able to perform up to forty exams per day.
This mobile device temporarily replaces one of the two CT scanners at the hospital, which was recently removed to begin renovations of the room that will house the new equipment that has already been acquired with an investment of half a million euros by the Lanzarote Health Services Management.
With this measure, the continuity of the hospital's diagnostic activity is guaranteed without interruptions, ensuring care for patients who require this type of study during the transition period.
Response to healthcare demand
The head of the Radiodiagnostics service, Heidy Sáenz, points out that the new equipment multiplies the service's capacity to perform these tests and facilitates specific exams with a lower dose of radiation.
For his part, the manager of the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital, Pablo Eguia, emphasizes that the mobile CT scanner is an effective and patient-centered measure, while ensuring that the level of healthcare demand at the hospital makes this device necessary so that the usual activity is not affected, nor does the waiting list increase during the weeks that the works are carried out.
The hospital's Radiodiagnostics service performed 12,230 CT studies last year, and has performed 6,032 exams of this type until May 2025, which confirms a growth of almost 21 percent compared to the same period last year.
