Peru receives medical equipment provided by UK

Peru's Ministry of Health on Friday received a donation of 60 mechanical ventilators and 40 multi-parameter monitors from the United Kingdom. This equipment will be destined for different hospitals in the country where critically and moderately affected COVID-19 patients are treated.Peru's new Minister of Health Óscar Ugarte thanked the UK.

"We are grateful for the economic value of this donation, but we are even more grateful for the value it has in saving lives", said Ugarte.

The President of Peru's Council of Ministers Violeta Bermúdez in turn expressed her gratitude.

"This equipment will be put into operation immediately, so that our frontline doctors, so that our frontline health workers, can count on this very valuable resource", she said.

The value of the UK donation exceeds 700,000 US dollars

Peru is currently going through a second wave of the virus that has caused the collapse of the healthcare system around the entire Andean nation.

More than 1.2 million people have been infected and 44,489 have died to date, most of them underprivileged people and also first-responders on the frontline, including 310 doctors, 125 nurses and more than 500 policemen.