Photos: Sergio Betancort
The president of the Canary Islands Government, Paulino Rivero, visited this afternoon the new location of the local office of Costa Teguise in an act in which he was accompanied by the Minister of Health, Brígida Mendoza, the director of the Canarian Health Service, Juana María Reyes, the general director of Economic Resources of the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Joaquín Mario Morales, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, the mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, and the director of the Health Area of Lanzarote, Erasmo García.
The health center has a general medicine and D.U.E. consultation, a pediatrics and D.U.E. consultation, a nursing care room and a waiting room for medical consultations and nursing care.
Lanzarote health structure
The Health Area of Lanzarote is distributed in seven Basic Health Zones: Arrecife-Santa Coloma, Arrecife-Valterra, Teguise, Haría, Tias, Yaiza and San Bartolomé-Tinajo that have the health centers of Titerroy, Valterra, Teguise, Haría, San Bartolomé, Tías and Playa Blanca, and with the local consultants of Costa Teguise, Tahíche, Mala, Tinajo, Puerto del Carmen Yaiza, Playa Honda and La Graciosa.
For the population residing in the Health Area of Lanzarote, the University Hospital of Gran Canaria Dr. Negrín is the reference hospital, both for emergencies and hospitalization and for support to specialties.
Health activity
In Primary Care, during the year 2013 in Lanzarote, 563,029 family medicine consultations were carried out; 120,624 of pediatrics and 383,361 of nursing, while in emergencies 53,963 were attended in medicine, 55,395 in nursing and 25,696 in pediatrics.
The Dr. José Molina Orosa Hospital currently has 226 beds, seven intensive care units, 19 emergency posts, nine operating rooms, five delivery rooms, 19 day hospital posts, 59 hospital consultation rooms, an electrophysiology room, a mammogram, 15 ultrasound scanners, two endoscopy equipment, two bronchoscopy equipment and one stress test equipment.
Regarding specialized activity, in 2013, 54,213 emergencies were attended; 175,537 consultations and 1,205 births and 7,118 surgical interventions were performed, of which 1,166 were urgent and 5,841 were scheduled.
