The waiting list to be seen by some medical specialty at the Doctor José Molina Orosa General Hospital has fallen by 38.6% in one year. In December 2025, 2,486 people were waiting to be seen in one of the twenty-seven specialties, compared to the 4,048 who were waiting a year before. This is according to data from the Canary Islands Health Service.
In this way, the largest quantitative decrease has been recorded in the specialty of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery, where between December 2024 and the same month of 2025 the waiting list falls by almost 57%. After this specialty, the wait has also fallen in Gynecology (78%), General and Digestive Surgery (66.7%), Otorhinolaryngology (51%), Urology (80%), Allergology (42%), and Endocrinology (66.7%).
Faced with the drop in the waiting list, other specialties have seen an increase in patients waiting to be attended. The one that has suffered the greatest increase has been Angiology and Vascular Surgery (142.6%), Ophthalmology (25.64%), Pulmonology (63.5%), Neurology (65.3%), Hematology (20.3%), Pediatrics (14.8%), and Nephrology (25%).
Currently, the specialty with the longest waiting list continues to be Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery, with 393 patients waiting to be seen; followed by Rehabilitation, with 264, Ophthalmology, with 245, and Allergy, with 193.
In the set of public hospitals in the Canary Islands, the specialties with the worst waiting list are Ophthalmology and Dermatology. In the case of Lanzarote, Ophthalmology is in third position and Dermatology in fifth place.