On July 22, health authorities inaugurated the first Telemedicine Center in the department of Piura, in the northwest of the country.
Since May of this year, EsSalud's Piura Assistance Network reported on the inauguration of the first Telemedicine center in the Piura Region, located in Hospital III José Cayetano Heredia, belonging to EsSalud Piura.
Dr. Milagritos Sánchez Reto, director of the hospital, explained last May that the Telemedicine Center would have a digital platform for specialized and timely health care. “The person will be able to request their appointment by phone and when they have the indicated date, the patient will be treated without having to move, they will only need their cell phone to be able to generate an interaction with our health personnel,” he commented.
The new Telemedicine Center has nine boxes and seven cabins for consultations and remote guidance, which will be interconnected with the National Center for Telemedicine which is located in Lima. Likewise, it was equipped with multidisciplinary and specialized teams to provide care in psychology, radiology, pulmonology, cardiology, oncology, family medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, traumatology, urology, infectology, otolaryngology, endocrinology, pain therapy and pediatrics.
The executive president of EsSalud, Fiorella Molinelli, explained that this action will benefit more than 600,000 EsSalud policyholders: “The 658,000 policyholders in the Piura region will be able to access the digital platform and from the comfort of their homes receive specialized care in real time, quality and opportune”.
On the other hand, Dr. José Céspedes, manager of the Piura Assistance Network, highlighted the importance of this type of service to provide greater accessibility to health services to the population of the region: "The most important thing is the opportunity of attention; that is, I can shorten the time of a referral and thanks to this center, the attention can be the same day if it is an urgency or emergency. We can interact with a patient who is in Huancabamba or Ayabaca so that they have a timely diagnosis or define whether or not it is necessary for them to go to their nearest establishment or to our hospital”.
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