The Home Care Program (Padomi) of the Social Health Insurance of Peru (EsSalud), provided more than 800 thousand teleconsultations in 2021.
Padomi is the EsSalud program that is responsible for providing care to the insured population over 80 years of age, it specializes mainly in home care, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they adopted the remote care modality. In addition, teleconsultations were the service most used by Padomi during 2021.
El Padomi, carried out more than one million care for older adults so far in 2021. The services provided were home care, teleconsultations, laboratory procedures and home delivery of medications.
362 thousand of the actions corresponded to home care; 800 thousand to teleconsultations; 70 thousand to laboratory procedures; as well as 510 thousand deliveries of medicines at home.
In this way, adults aged 80 and over in Peru, who are insured by EsSalud, can permanently access doctors and specialists 24 hours a day. Likewise, as part of home care, they have a home hospitalization service and telemedicine monitoring.