The Minister of Health, Pilar Mazzetti, highlighted the results in the use of information technologies for health and commented that 11 million interactions have been achieved through telehealth schemes.
The Minister of Health, Pilar Mazzetti, presented the budget for the Ministry of Health (Minsa) and highlighted the work done during the pandemic, as a National Multisectoral Health Policy was approved after two years of work.
For the creation of the budget, the Minister explained that pandemic-derived situations were considered, so budget programs in the health sector will have readjustments. "Now we are reaching the population in different ways. In rural areas it still maintains the classic form, but to the population that is in places with greater access to phones or computer media, we are arriving through telehealth."
In addition, it welcomed the fact that 11 million remote interventions have been carried out through consultations, interconsultation, diagnostics, among others. Gradually we are changing, even consultations were acquitted in remote areas where there was a phone."
Mazzetti, commented that Peru is advancing in Latin America as one of the countries with the best development of information technologies for the care of citizens. And that the Minsa stands out above other ministries in the use of technological means to provide care to patients.
Peru continues to move towards digitization of its health services and greater coverage through remote consultations and interconsulting. The change in the health budget in 2021 also responds to the implementation of telemedicine and telehealth programmes, such as the National Telemedicine Center opened a month ago.
