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11/12/2025

Vitoria-Gasteiz strengthens its healthcare offering

• Healthcare reinforcement: the center completes its activation, centralizing the entire care circuit (diagnosis, treatments, and inpatient and outpatient surgery) for musculoskeletal pathologies in a single location.
• Technology in Álava: activates its surgical block, which includes the MAKO robotic arm, the only technology of its kind in the Basque Country for hip and knee prostheses, improving the precision of interventions

This week, the healthcare map of Vitoria-Gasteiz adds a new key resource at full capacity. The MiKS Hospital, located in the Ibaiondo neighborhood, has completed its implementation phase with the activation of its operating rooms and hospitalization area. This milestone consolidates a highly specialized healthcare center in the capital of Álava, focusing on musculoskeletal disorders and integrating all its services—from diagnosis to surgery and rehabilitation—in a single circuit.

To date, the center had been providing services through its outpatient departments, which have been operating since last July. During this period, the hospital has maintained active consultation and treatment services for adults and children, including outpatient trauma consultations, the Pain Unit, biological therapies, Advanced Physiotherapy, and radiology.

With the full opening of the surgical and inpatient areas this week, MiKS Hospital achieves full integration of its multidisciplinary team. The center brings together specialists in traumatology and orthopedic surgery, pain management, radiodiagnostics, and rehabilitation. This includes experts in pediatric conditions, offering specialized care aligned with the standards of leading reference centers in musculoskeletal health for children.

This consolidation in a single location ensures patients benefit from a comprehensive care pathway and optimal management of their recovery.

Surgical innovation and precision diagnostics.

The opening of operating rooms allows activity to be centralized in facilities specifically designed for high specialization. These spaces are equipped with state-of-the-art digital integration systems that are key to knowledge transfer: they allow live broadcasts of procedures not only to consultation rooms and training rooms, but also facilitate connection with auditoriums, conferences, and other medical-scientific forums. This technology maximizes clinical excellence and actively contributes to teaching and the continuous updating of both in-house and external medical teams.

This technological environment is home to the MAKO robotic arm for hip and knee prostheses, a technology that is the only one of its kind in the Basque Country. Although the team has been using this system since March 2024, its incorporation into the Ibaiondo headquarters allows for the optimization of times and the application of recovery protocols under the direction of specialists with experience and specific training in the use of this technology, ensuring continuity of care throughout the process.

This surgical capacity is backed by a high-definition diagnostic imaging service which, although it has been operational since the summer, now comes into its own by providing direct support for surgical planning. Equipped with 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Artificial Intelligence systems, as well as CT scans and conventional radiology, this technical infrastructure is key to clinical decision-making and allows MiKS Hospital to offer a benchmark study capacity for various pathologies.

In short, MiKS Hospital provides a stable physical infrastructure for the experience of Dr. Mikel Sánchez's team, which has consolidated three decades of medical experience in Vitoria. For patients, this results in comprehensive care backed by a group recognized for its pioneering contributions to the development of arthroscopic surgery and Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP). With this new facility, the team's historical know-how is applied in a center specifically designed to optimize clinical outcomes for patients with musculoskeletal pathologies.