Minsa hospitals will light up red to commemorate World Tuberculosis Day

The frontis of the Ministry of Health and seven national hospitals, will be illuminated in red on the occasion of the commemoration of World Tuberculosis Day will be held this Thursday, 24 March, and in support of initiatives and programs for the eradication of one of the most contagious diseases in the world.

For the first time, our capital will join cities around the world that will join this global initiative promoted by the Stop TB Partnership program of the UN and the World Health Organization (WHO), which invite symbolically illuminate public buildings and health facilities representative of different places with the aimed at raising public awareness, making this disease visible and the need to strengthen measures to combat it by 2030.

This symbolic activity promoted by the Ministry of Health, through the Directorate for Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in partnership with the Partners in Health Organization, consists of illuminating the main buildings and emblematic health establishments such as the Ministry of Health, Hipolito Unanue Hospital, Archbishop Hospital Loayza, Dos de Mayo Hospital, Maria Auxiliadora Hospital, Sergio Bernales Hospital, Children's Hospital and the National Institute of Health.

As we know, Tuberculosis is considered a public health problem, ranking among the top 10 causes of mortality in the world and mostly affects the economically active population. According to WHO data, every day in the world, more than 4,000 people lose their lives because of tuberculosis and nearly 30,000 fall ill.

In 2020, there were an estimated 18,300 children with TB in the Americas, half of them under 5 years of age. In this context, Peru has made significant progress in recent years in increasing case detection, however, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a decrease in preventive activities, TB detection and access to adequate treatment.

The lighting of the front of the Ministry of Health and hospitals in red will be visible during the afternoon night of Thursday 24 March, starting at 7 pm.

MINSA PROMOTES THIRD DOSE VACCINATION IN GAMARRA

The health brigades of the Directorate of Integrated Health Networks (Diris) Lima Centro toured the main galleries in Gamarra in order to vaccinate people with pending doses and thus close gaps in the face of a possible fourth wave of COVID-19.

During the tour, the health personnel motivated the population to take the third dose against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, reminding them to take it three months after receiving the second dose.

For his part, the head of the Diris Lima Centro, Luis Valverde, said that San Juan de Lurigancho, La Victoria and El Cercado de Lima are the districts with the largest population pending the third dose; and that is why vaccination sweeps are carried out.

“We are implementing a vaccination sweep in the workplace, emphasizing the third dose to reduce the possibility of mass contagion among the population and contribute to the economic reactivation of the commercial emporium,” he said.

According to the vaccination brigades, many people do not get the third dose because they refuse the AstraZeneca vaccine.

In this regard, the director of the Diris Lima Center recalled that “all the vaccines that are applied have proven to have a good degree of efficacy and effectiveness”.

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