North Lima It will soon have a high -tech hospital that promises to renew medical attention in the capital. However, the announcement comes while the memory of serious accusations persists for bad practices and unhealthy conditions in the current headquarters of the Sergio E. Bernales Hospital.
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) announced this week the beginning of works of the new Sergio E. Bernales National Hospital, in the Comas district, which promises to become one of the most modern health establishments in the country.
This work, which will be built under the modality of the Government Government Contract (G2G) with France, seeks to transform health care in Lima Norte, a area that houses more than 900 thousand people and that, in recent years, it has been hard beaten by the deficiencies of the public health system.
The new hospital infrastructure will be lifted over an area of more than 76 thousand square meters and will be equipped with more than 28 thousand latest technology medical equipment, including 7 ambulances, 14 UCI incubators, 27 hospitalization cribs, diagnostic equipment for images, laboratories and high -precision clinical monitoring systems.
The Minister of Health, César Vásquez, said the project represents “a long -awaited dream” for the population of Lima Norte, and stressed that this effort marks a decisive step towards a more efficient and human health system.
In addition to equipment, the hospital will have More than 500 hospital bedsdistributed in various specialties and critical areas. In total, 18 units producing health services (UPSS) will be enabled, which will include intensive care units (ICU), emergency, general hospitalization, outpatient surgery, hemodialysis, chemotherapy, blood bank, pharmacy, image diagnosis, rehabilitation, mental health, physical medicine and other specialized services.
The megaproject, which will demand a Total investment of S/1,062 millionwill be executed within 37 months by the Health Bernales consortium, made up of Chinese companies Machinery Engineering Corporation Peru and Qingjiang Group Co., Ltd., in close coordination with the French Project Management Office (PMO).
The new hospital will be built using the Fast-Track approach and the BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology, which will allow to integrate the design, planning and execution of the work in real time, reducing costs and times without compromising quality or safety.
One of the novelties of the project is that the New Hospital Sergio E. Bernales It will be the first public health establishment in Lima to have the LEED certification (Leadership in Energy and environmental Design), awarded to buildings that meet high standards of environmental sustainability.
However, this announcement comes in a difficult context for the hospital, whose name has been in the center of the public debate for various complaints of medical negligence and inadequate sanitary conditions at its current headquarters. A few weeks ago, a program report Final point He presented serious cases that show critical failures in attention. One of them was that of a newborn who suffered third grade burns After allegedly bathed with hot water.
Although the hospital address argued that it was a “strong friction” during diaper change, the version was denied by an internal hospital document that would confirm the exposure of the minor to hot water.
Another alarming case involves a baby of only 16 days born, which fell from an incubatorsuffering a cranial fracture and internal cerebral hemorrhage. It was also reported that a child contracted serious infections during their hospital stay due to an alleged lack of health control.
The child’s mother denounced that no basic measures were adopted to avoid infections: “My son has infected twice, has given him a cardiac arrest. They tell me that they will wait for results, but I will not wait for my son to die.”
The images disseminated by the television program also showed The presence of street animals such as dogs and cats in sensitive areas of the hospitalas well as accumulation of garbage in corridors and clinical environments, which demonstrates a critical health situation.
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