A total of 4,048 people were waiting to be seen by a specialist doctor at the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote. This is according to data provided by the Canary Islands Health Service, with figures from December 2024.
The most demanded clinical specialty on the island is traumatology and orthopedic surgery, with 912 patients waiting for their external consultation; the second is rehabilitation (362), followed by allergology (333), gynecology (314) and otolaryngology (306). In sixth place is endocrinology (204), followed by ophthalmology (195), urology (180), cardiology (122). To conclude, to a lesser extent, patients on the island await their appointment with the external consultations of digestive system (78), pediatrics (74), rheumatology (61), hematology (59), angiology and vascular surgery (54), pulmonology (52), internal medicine (49), neurology (49), psychiatry (47), nephrology (40),
More than 1,300 people waiting for an intervention
The structural waiting list corresponds to those patients who are waiting to undergo surgery and its structure is attributed to the organization and available resources. The surgical waiting list in Lanzarote shows that patients must wait an average of two months, specifically 61.91 days, to be able to have surgery. With data from December 31, provided by the Ministry of Health, 1,307 people are waiting at Molina Orosa to have an intervention, although most take less than six months to be able to have it.
In contrast, islands such as Tenerife or Gran Canaria concentrate the greatest surgical demand in the archipelago. The University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC), in Tenerife, is the one that takes the longest on average to operate on its patients, with five months of waiting and also the one in which the most patients wait to undergo surgery, 10,939. Meanwhile, the one with the least is the Hospital Insular Señora de los Reyes, in El Hierro, with only 15 patients on the list and an average wait of 11 days.
By specialties, in the Molina Orosa the surgical service of traumatology and orthopedic surgery has 353 people waiting for an operation. This is the surgical intervention that takes the longest to wait, a total of 83.52 days on average. Following this, 301 patients wait an average of 54 days to be operated on by general or digestive surgery, and 256 users 48.7 days to be operated on by ophthalmology. Meanwhile, in otolaryngology there are 166 people waiting an average of 69.71 days.
In urology the wait is 50 days on average, with 118 patients on the waiting lists; thus in gynecology there are 56 patients waiting, with 50 days on average, and angiology and vascular surgery, with 55 patients and 40 days of waiting. In contrast, dermatology only has two patients on the surgical lists, with an average delay of 12 and a half days, and being the least demanded intervention.
Medical tests
Regarding medical tests, the one that requires the longest waiting time is the simple ultrasound. With 343 people on the waiting list, the average delay to have one is nine and a half months. Thus, the second most demanded test requires much less waiting time and is nuclear magnetic resonance, with 148 people on the waiting list and one month to have it done. In third place, computed tomography (CT scan) requires an average time of two months and one week and there are 124 people waiting their turn. To conclude, endoscopies take around 18 days to be performed, with 23 people on the list. Meanwhile, echocardiograms and ergometries have no waiting time.