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Lima, Apr 13 (EFE).- Peru remembered this Wednesday night the 581 doctors who have died from covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, and the Minister of Health, Rosa Gutiérrez, announced that legal assistance will be provided to recognize the relatives of the bereaved in the country with the highest mortality rate in the world from this disease.
“The recognition cannot be for a single day, it must be constant. I join this deep feeling to tell you that, from the Ministry of Health, we are working to care for the families of our heroes, that is why I make legal advice available and regulations to initiate recognition actions for each one of them,” said the Minister of Health at the event.
On Wednesday night, the ceremony for the Day of the Bicentennial Martyrs was held, in memory of the 581 doctors who were infected while caring for patients with covid-19 and died, the ministry reported in a press release released this Wednesday. Thursday.
“The gaps in infrastructure and human resources are large. We have not worked on infrastructure for 40 years and we have not built hospitals for 70 years, which is why we need everyone to strengthen our health system,” added Gutiérrez.
In this sense, he explained that they are coordinating efforts with different institutions to intervene in 8,200 health establishments, as well as unlock more than 3,520 million soles (932,813 million dollars) in hospital infrastructure.
Peru has faced an increase in covid-19 cases in recent weeks caused by the presence of a “new lineage” of the omicron variant, although it is ruled out that a sixth pandemic wave will occur, the Ministry of Health reported this Wednesday.
The increase in infections occurs, mainly, in Lima and Callao, although “high mortality is not reported in the country” thanks to the advancement of vaccination, according to the general director of the National Center for Epidemiology, Prevention and Control of Diseases (CDC), César Munayco.
“Therefore, the Ministry of Health rules out a sixth pandemic wave,” emphasized the specialist before detailing that criteria such as a high death rate, saturation of health services, and the existence of a new wave must be met in order to confirm a new wave. of a “social and economic disruption”.
The latest data from the ministry, with figures up to last Monday, reported that 11 deaths were confirmed that day, 74 infections and that another 93 people were hospitalized, 29 of them in intensive care units with mechanical ventilation. EFE
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