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15:00 | Lima, Jan. 16.
Peruvian Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti on Saturday announced that mechanical ventilation equipment will arrive starting next week to strengthen healthcare services in diverse regions, thus continuing to face the COVID-19 pandemic. When this occurs, the support of regional governments will be important to efficiently distribute and implement them, the high-ranking official expressed.
Likewise, the Cabinet member pointed out that pulse oximeters and oxygen tanks have been delivered to reinforce primary care level.
In this sense, she requested regional governors to cooperate, so that the equipment can reach health centers.
Furthermore, the minister thanked the regions that have sent their doctors to training programs.
Photo: ANDINA/Ministry of Health of Peru
15:00 | Lima, Jan. 16.
Peruvian Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti on Saturday announced that mechanical ventilation equipment will arrive starting next week to strengthen healthcare services in diverse regions, thus continuing to face the COVID-19 pandemic. When this occurs, the support of regional governments will be important to efficiently distribute and implement them, the high-ranking official expressed.
Likewise, the Cabinet member pointed out that pulse oximeters and oxygen tanks have been delivered to reinforce primary care level.
In this sense, she requested regional governors to cooperate, so that the equipment can reach health centers.
Furthermore, the minister thanked the regions that have sent their doctors to training programs.
The Cabinet member pointed out that although the reality of infections is changing and may vary from one moment to another the possibility of returning to a quarantine cannot be ruled out, in case the situation gets out of control. We are in a situation of uncertainty, and that is hard, but we must be clear about it. We all must be aware that our situation can change at any moment; we have said so this time when we have gone from a low transmission; nonetheless, this is already changing, Dr. Mazzetti expressed. At this moment, the health system is receiving more patients, and we see that it is going from a regrowth to a moment in which the number of cases is already increasing very rapidly. We are in a second wave. We are in uncertainty, she emphasized.
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13:02 | Lima, Jan. 13. The Ministry of Health (Minsa) has reaffirmed that by law the distribution and administration of the emergency vaccine against COVID-19 will be free of charge for all inhabitants of the national territory, aged over 18, and who wish to obtain it.
The ministry ensures universal and free vaccination. This has not been modified by the regulations of the Conditional Sanitary Registry (RSC) recently approved by the government agency.
It must be noted that obtaining the RSC is a requirement for the importation and use of the vaccine nationwide.
In order to get it, the manufacturing laboratory must be directly represented; thus, there cannot be two representatives for the same vaccine.