Minister of Health, Esther Monzón, outlined her department's priorities for the upcoming year in the Canary Islands Parliament, focusing on the modernization and expansion of hospitals and health centers. The goal is to enhance healthcare quality and the service portfolios offered to citizens.
Currently, the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) has over twenty-five contracted and awarded works valued at more than 123 million euros. Additionally, eight projects are out for tender or have approved projects and are nearing tender, with seventeen projects in the drafting or technical supervision phase for future works.
In total, the planned investment across more than fifty projects on all islands, including health centers, local clinics, and hospital centers, exceeds 195 million euros. These works will be distributed across Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife, El Hierro, and La Palma.
Gran Canaria will receive 85 million euros. Highlights include the second phase of the expansion of the Insular University Hospital Materno-Infantil (47.4 million), the new Short-Stay Unit (1.16 million), and the facade renovation of the Insular University Hospital (7.8 million). At the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria, the Advanced Therapies Building is under construction (over 20.5 million). Health centers like Alcaravaneras will also be air-conditioned, and the Schamann Health Center will be renovated.
Lanzarote will see investments in the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital for the reform of the power plant (3.4 million) and the Pathology Service facilities (925,000 euros). In Primary Care, the San Bartolomé Health Center will be renovated (one million), and the Costa Teguise Local Clinic will be expanded (1.35 million).
Fuerteventura will witness the construction of the new Corralejo II – Dunas Health Center (over nine million) and the renovation of the Morro Jable Health Center (239,000 euros). At the General Hospital of Fuerteventura, a new two-level annex is being built (475,000 euros).
In Tenerife, the University Hospital of the Canary Islands will undertake works for the Post-Anesthesia Recovery Unit (1.6 million) and the installation of a new generator set (855,000 euros), in addition to the cyclotron works (11.4 million). The University Hospital Nuestra Señora de Candelaria plans a communication walkway (1.4 million), and the fire protection facilities at the Ofra Hospital are being completed (nearly 500,000 euros). The Parque Marítimo Health Center is also under construction (1.6 million).
El Hierro will see the completion of the annex building at the Nuestra Señora de los Reyes Hospital for MRI and orthopantomography (1.6 million). In La Palma, exterior carpentry at the Villa de Mazo Health Center is being replaced (189,000 euros).
In addition to ongoing works, eight significant projects totaling forty million euros are out for tender or nearing tender. In Gran Canaria, notable projects include the new Las Támaras Health Center and Mental Health Unit (over 18.6 million) and the expansion of the Schamann Health Center (nearly six million). In La Gomera, the Day Hospital at Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Hospital will be renovated (1.1 million). In El Hierro, the Valverde Health Center will be completed (4.5 million).
In La Palma, renovations are being prepared at the island's University Hospital for fire protection (1.7 million) and outpatient consultations (2.7 million), along with the angiography room (1.3 million). In Tenerife, the facade of the tower at the Hospital de La Candelaria will be rehabilitated (4.3 million), and new health centers are planned for Los Cristianos (9.7 million) and Costa Adeje (9.5 million).
Other projects in drafting or supervision include the expansion of the Hospital del Sur de Tenerife, the Tacoronte Health Center, the Barrio de Salamanca Health Center, and the Barranco Grande Health Center. In Fuerteventura, the Costa Calma Health Center will be expanded (1.2 million), and a facility in Gran Tarajal for Mental Health will be adapted (nearly 600,000 euros).
