The Social Health Insurance System (EsSalud) has sent 21 metric tons of medicines and medical supplies, oxygen cylinders, ethyl alcohol, coronavirus (COVID-19) tests, as well as personal protective equipment to the rainforest regions of Loreto and Ucayali, EsSalud Executive-President Fiorella Molinelli reported on Wednesday.
According to Molinelli, doctors, nurses, and nursing technicians, headed by Operations and Policyholder Service managers, got on the plane as well. The aim is
to enhance the care of COVID-19 patients in said regions.
Thus, she said, EsSalud will enhance the primary care level, so that health posts and centers in this part of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest are well-stocked with medicines.
The goal is to promote the recovery of patients with mild symptoms in order to prevent their condition from worsening and requiring hospitalization or mechanical ventilation in Intensive Care Units (ICU).
Molinelli stressed the imperative need to enhance —with medications— the operational capacity of the primary care level in the country, at times like these, when clinical beds, mechanical ventilators and oxygen cylinders are scarce in local and international markets.
"We are going to improve the supply of medicines for timely diagnosis of COVID-19 at health centers, to ensure they constitute a support for hospitals, which receive patients day after day," she stated.
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Published: 5/6/2020