The Emergency Service of the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital attended to 74,124 patients throughout 2024, a figure that represents an increase of 5.5 percent in the activity registered in 2023 and the highest number of people attended to by the service in a year.
The daily average of patients who went to the hospital emergency room exceeded 200 people, with common illnesses and minor injuries being the main reasons for the care demand.
Of the total number of patients attended to by the Emergency Service, 84 percent were discharged after passing through the consultation, while 9.1 percent of the people required hospital admission.
Reasons why the population goes to the Emergency Room
The main and majority reasons for going to the Emergency Service were minor injuries and common illnesses, with different symptoms that affect the state of health such as fever, general malaise, sore throat and those related to respiratory tract infections or gastroenteritis, as well as skin wounds that needed sutures. Specifically, 87 percent of the urgent consultations were due to these pathologies.
In second place were accidental accidents, which registered seven percent.
To a lesser extent were work accidents, whose consultations did not reach two percent, while traffic accidents on the island accounted for 1.18 percent of the demand for Emergency Services, with a total of 830 victims.
To respond to this demand, the Emergency Service of Molina Orosa has a team composed of forty doctors, 72 nurses, 38 auxiliary nursing care technicians and 35 orderlies.
Emergency Services in figures
According to the statistics of the care activity, 53 percent of the people attended to in the Emergency Services of the Molina Orosa Hospital were women and 47 percent of the patients were men. The largest age group that went to this service is between 15 and 44 years for both genders, although it is higher in the case of women. People between 65 and 74 years old are the ones who required it the least and the pediatric population from zero to fourteen years old accounted for 13.5 percent of the care demand registered during 2024.
The highest activity of this hospital service was registered in the morning, about 44 percent of the patients attended to last year went between 08:00 and 15:00 hours. During the afternoons, 36 percent of the cases were attended to, while the activity decreased at night, where the entries were at 19 percent.
According to the data, the month with the highest care pressure in the Emergency Service during 2024 was October, with a total of 6,604 patients and an average of 213 users per day, while April was the month with the lowest record of patients, with 5,812 and an average of 193 daily consultations.
Extrahospital Emergency Services
As for the extrahospital emergency services, the primary care health centers on the island attended to a total of 179,645 patients during the past year, of which 86,727 were registered in the Valterra Health Center and 28,664 were treated in Titerroy. The Playa Blanca Health Center, for its part, attended to 32,502, Tías, 30,938 patients, and the La Graciosa clinic, to 814 people.
