In the first quarter of 2023, the Social Health Security (EsSalud) plans to inaugurate the new Bicentenario Cutervo hospital in Cajamarca, which is currently 80% complete and will benefit nearly 20,000 policyholders, including children, adults, and adults. older than this region of the northeast of the country.
This was announced by the executive president of EsSalud, Aurelio Orellana Vicuña, who arrived in Cajamarca to supervise the execution of the future hospital infrastructure, which is built on an area of more than 13 thousand square meters in the Huaca Corral community, district and province of Cutervo.
He specified that the future hospital, which demands a investment of S/ 40 millionwhich includes modern equipment and specialized personnel, will have more than 40 hospitalization beds, an emergency area, outpatient clinics, an obstetric center, a pharmacy, among other essential services.
He also said that the Bicentenario Cutervo hospital will have a surgical center with two operating rooms, in which complex and lower-risk surgeries such as appendix problems, gallbladder problems, etc. will be performed.
To date, EsSalud has implemented four modular hospitals in Jauja, Lima (Canta Callao), Chota and Chao. In addition to Cutervo, a similar hospital will soon be inaugurated in San Juan de Miraflores.
Other activities
Subsequently, the head of EsSalud moved to Chota, where he supervised the health services of the Bicentennial Hospital of this city, launched last June and which to date has provided more than 18,000 cares to the insured population.
Later, Orellana Vicuña inspected the construction work of the modern specialized hospital Cajamarcawhich Social Security executes with a investment of more than S/ 366 million and that will benefit more than 263 thousand policyholders.
The future hospital infrastructure, which stands on a plot of more than 15,000 square meters, will have 210 hospitalization beds, 54 specialized medical offices, emergency services, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, physical medicine and rehabilitation, diagnostic imaging, laboratory and pharmacy.
It will also have ICU/NICU areas with 31 beds for pediatric and adult patients, a surgical center with 6 operating rooms, an obstetric center, a blood bank, and other essential care services for health care.
