Death clinics operate without control or oversight, putting patients at risk

Some 15 clinics and laboratories that operate in Jirón Puno, Daniel Alcides Carrión Avenue and others located in the vicinity of clinics and hospitals in the center of HuancayoThey constitute a real risk to health. In these places they offer ultrasounds, X-rays, blood tests, cholesterol, anemia ruling, among other services highly required by people with limited resources and that they offer at cheap prices, but without any guarantee.

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danger. After 3 days of unexpected operations, the Junín Regional Health Directorate, the Second Huancayo Crime Prevention Prosecutor’s Office, the State Security Unit-PNP and the Huancayo Municipality, found sniffers taking unsuspecting patients to these informal establishments.

“The terrible conditions of service attention were verified, they do not have the professionals, they work in dirty environments and equipment, reasons that lead the municipality to close the establishments and the police to arrest those who carry out the illegal exercise of the profession” , emphasized Sizel Urbina Pérez, Regional Coordinator of Control of the DIPOS Team of Diresa Junín. During the inspection, it was observed that the Establishments do not properly manage solid and biocontaminated waste, do not have RENIPRESS registration or Categorization, present misleading advertising, do not have an operating license and do not have a competent professional to carry out the activities.

At the “Vida Medic” premises in Jirón Puno, the presence of a woman who performed nursing work was identified, without having a professional title, which is why she was intervened.

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Likewise, the premises were sealed in the absence of the staff and the owner of the premises. In the coming days, the unexpected operations and the visit to the premises already inspected will continue to verify if they raised their observations.

Diresa Junín urges the population to require health establishments to present the certificate of categorization and registration in RENIPRESS. And request the title and tuition of the medical staff that provides care, if they do not have they are liable to a complaint.