The Government of the Canary Islands has declared an emergency to carry out the necessary actions to complete and legalize the multipurpose building with a global investment of 979,944 euros. The measure includes the drafting of the project, the site supervision, and the material execution of the works in the same file.
The decision responds, according to the regional resolution, to the urgent need to advance in the progressive emptying of the Insular Hospital, on which there are technical reports since 2019 that warn of serious structural, electrical, and fire protection deficiencies incompatible with the maintenance of healthcare activity in adequate safety conditions.
The document also points out that the multipurpose building, awarded by emergency in September 2021 for hospitalization and care of emerging diseases, had to be occupied on December 19, 2025, due to the impossibility of continuing to delay the transfer of services and patients.
With this action, the regional Executive intends to guarantee the safety of residents, users, family members, and healthcare personnel, in addition to facilitating the care reorganization planned by the Canary Islands Health Service.
Comprehensive transfer of the Insular Hospital's care model
The property will allow to accommodate part of the comprehensive transfer of the Hospital Insular's care model and will enable new healthcare resources. Among them are three new medical consultations on the ground floor and 26 hospitalization beds for Oncohematology on the first floor, ten more than at present, which represents an increase of 60%. 12 beds for Pneumology, eight places for an Intermediate Care Unit, and the Vascular Access Team Implementation Unit will also be incorporated.
The reorganization of spaces will also allow for the freeing up of hospital areas to expand specialties and services with high demand, such as Neurology, Neurosurgery, Cardiology, Pain Unit, Urology, or Allergies, as well as enabling a new room for a mammography machine and expanding Ambulatory Major Surgery with a tenth operating room.
In total, the new zone 2 of consultations and the commissioning of the multipurpose building will allow to go from 53 to 67 consultations, approaching the 96 considered necessary by the island's health system.
CC attacks Yoné Caraballo
Coalición Canaria Lanzarote has also criticized the proposal by Nueva Canarias deputy Yoné Caraballo for the multipurpose building to remain unoccupied and reserved in the event of a health crisis due to contagious diseases.
The nationalists consider that the initiative represents "an outrage" by not proposing alternatives for the Hospital Insular or for the care improvements planned with the building's entry into operation.
“It is unheard of that someone who should know the needs of island healthcare would allow themselves to make such a proposal out of pure populism,” said Pedro San Ginés, who defended the urgent need to put the building into operation to respond to the island's healthcare demands.
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