CIDCA donates medical equipment worth US$10 million to hospitals and specialized institutes in Lima Metropolitan Area

On or about January 12, 2023, the China International Development Cooperation Agency committed a donation of 171 pieces of medical equipment, valued at approximately $10 million, under the Medical Equipment for Hospitals and Specialized and Forensic Institutions in Lima project.

The supplies were scheduled to arrive in Peru on February 8, 2023, and the project was to be implemented with the help of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI).

The equipment was designated for six hospitals, four health institutes, and the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, a forensic medicine institute belonging to the Ministry of Health and the Public Prosecutor's Office.

The six hospitals were the Arzobispo Loayza Hospital, the Dos de Mayo Hospital, the San Bartolomé National Teaching Hospital, the José Agurto Tello de Chosica Hospital, the María Auxiliadora Hospital, and the Hipólito Unanue Hospital.

The four health institutes were the Niño de San Borja Health Institute, the Niño de Breña Health Institute, the National Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute, and the National Institute of Neurological Sciences.

The equipment includes medical refrigerators, medical freezers, medical cryopreservation boxes, portable digital color Doppler ultrasound scanners, mobile surgical lights, electro-hydraulic operating tables, emergency ventilators, ventilators of different sizes, anesthesia machines, as well as patient monitors of different screen sizes.

The project will allow these health institutions to maximize the work of doctors, nurses, health technicians, and forensic and legal medicine, as well as to provide better patient care and adequate equipment.

The first known donation through this program took place on April 20, 2023, and included 15 pieces of medical equipment for the National Maternal and Perinatal Institute, including a 4D Doppler echocardiograph, two mobile surgical lights, three anesthesia machines with advanced monitoring, three surgical tables, four 8-parameter vital signs monitors, and two 5-parameter vital signs monitors.

The National Maternal and Perinatal Institute received 18 pieces of medical equipment in total by the end of the program, worth a total of 520,500 soles.

The official closing/handover ceremony for the project took place on November 13, 2023 at the National Children's Institute in San Borja.

At this ceremony, the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences specifically received medical equipment worth USD 740,729 that included medical refrigerators, medical cryopreservation boxes, portable digital color Doppler ultrasound scanners, ECGs, mobile surgical lights, electrohydraulic operating tables, emergency ventilators, anesthesia machines, and patient monitors.