*Data from MSF International Activity Report 2021

Peru 2021 © Clément Locquet/MSF
Peru
Supporting the health care system in Peru by responding to natural disasters and diseases including HIV and COVID-19.
Our work in Peru
In Peru, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported the national response to COVID-19 with treatment and vaccinations and ran mobile clinics for Venezuelan migrants.
MSF treats people injured during protests in Lima
LIMA/NEW YORK, January 26, 2023—Since the ousting of former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo in December 2022, Peru has been rocked by intense political protests. These have been met with a violent response by the military and security forces, with dozens killed and over 1,200 people wounded. An MSF mobile team is providing medical and psychological care to the victims of the violence in Lima.
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What's happening in Peru?
In response to a steep rise in COVID-19 infections in April, which put a severe strain on the Peruvian health system, we sent a team to support the regional hospital in Huacho. We treated patients with oxygen therapy in the intensive care unit and provided follow-up care in homes.
In May, we started training health workers to treat COVID-19 patients in Cusco. We introduced non-invasive oxygen therapy, an alternative to intubation that allows patients to remain conscious. We also helped health care facilities in Huacho and Cusco to set up triage areas and organized mental health consultations for patients and their families, both face-to-face and by phone.
After COVID-19 cases declined, we handed over our patient care activities to Ministry of Health staff and focused on administering COVID-19 vaccinations in the cities of Cusco, Arequipa and Tumbes.

How we're helping in Peru
Nearly 1.3 million migrants from Venezuela now live in Peru and have limited access to medical care. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the borders were officially closed in 2021, leaving migrants without a way to register for health care and other government services.
In November, we started to run a mobile clinic in the northern border region of Tumbes, providing medical consultations for migrants who had recently arrived. In December, we started a mobile clinic in four areas of the capital, Lima, offering basic health care to migrants and local people.

How we're helping
1,690
Outpatient consultations
43,500
Doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered
1985
Year MSF first worked in the country
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