📋 Tender Overview
A total of 29 million soles transferred the Ministry of Health Minsa to Loreto to improve the health infrastructure of indigenous communities and strengthen the care units of Contamana Caballococha Requena San Lorenzo and Estrecho since for many years very little invested in these rural areas said the Minister of Health Vctor Zamora.What we hope with these 29 million is that the foundations of a more permanent health system in the area are laid. The budget transfer has to go through bureaucratic procedures at the moment it is in the Ministry of Economy and Finance ready to be sent to Loreto he said. However while funds come to establish health care permanently Zamora Mesa explained that the Ministry has resorted to direct care measures. Part of them is the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as early treatment to prevent Covid-19 from complicating but not to prevent the disease.We are also using resources so that seriously ill patients can be transferred through humanitarian flights to Iquitos for quick attention. During the weekend we have transferred 8 people he said. He emphasized that the support to this region has been permanent with Personal Protective Equipment medications rapid tests and more than 20 flights have been made from Lima to Loreto with medical supplies.Regarding the temporary expansion of hospital beds in the city of Iquitos the health minister mentioned that the company could not be obtained to carry out this execution. Since we cannot wait and the cases have been dropping we have decided to move forward with 150 beds he reiterated. The Minister of Health stressed that in Peru there are about 4500 beds managed and implemented by regional governments and that they cannot be used due to any legal management problem and in some cases corruption. We are intervening to free those beds he stressed.OxygenZamora Mesa reported that an air bridge has been established to carry oxygen to Yurimaguas until his plant is fully operational and recalled that the central government has published an Emergency Decree to install plants networks and buy balloons with this resource to respond to the epidemic . However it is the responsibility of the Regional Government to develop the infrastructure equipment and adequate supply. We provide technical assistance we support and eventually we intervene he emphasized.
