The American Clinic is part of the Adventist Health Medical Network of Peru.
In a scenario where the capacity of the Carlos Monge Medrano hospital in Juliaca, Peru, has reached its limit due to COVID-19, the American Clinic of Juliaca—a health ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church—has agreed to support the national health ministry’s contingency plan. In this instance, it made 15 electric hospital beds available to the population for the care of patients infected with this deadly virus.
Juliaca is a city of more than 276,000 people and is the capital city of San Roman Province in the Puno Region of southeastern Peru.
The 15 electric hospital beds were intended for patient care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Therefore, they were transferred to the Taparachi contingency hospital, which aims to house up to 40 patients infected with COVID-19.
In a meeting where Dr. Boris Alomía, general director of the American Clinic, participated; José Luis Ramos Catachura, general manager of the American Clinic; and Dr. Fredy Velásquez Angles, director of the Carlos Monge Medrano Hospital, coordinated the use and location of the electric hospital beds.
"We are grateful to God because we’re able to contribute these beds for the treatment of people infected with COVID-19," said Ramos.
At the same time, Dr. Velásquez Angles, hospital director, was grateful for the gesture of the American Clinic and called for other institutions to unite against this virus. "We are grateful as an institution and ask that, like the American Clinic, everyone unite and be part of this situation that overwhelms the entire population."
The American Clinic is part of the Adventist Health Medical Network of Peru, fulfilling its commitment to contribute to the spread of the Gospel through its humanitarian actions.
This article was originally published on the South American Division’s Spanish site