Heavy rains in Iquitos caused extensive damage to homes and businesses, and more seriously, damage to the city Support hospitalThe floods seriously affected several areas, especially those designated for them Newborn care. This situation has raised great concern among the medical staff and patients’ families.
Heavy rains caused leaks in the hospital’s roof, leading to flooding in its facilities and damage to essential medical equipment in critical areas such as Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU)Maternity and Childbirth Centre. The accumulation of water in these areas also posed a direct risk of an electrical short circuit, endangering the safety of patients and health workers.
Faced with the emergency, hospital staff took improvised preventive measures: using buckets and other tools, they removed the water and moved the children to safer areas. However, the situation exposed the unstable infrastructure of the health center and sparked growing concern among doctors and family members.
The medical staff sent an urgent appeal to the regional authorities to speed up the disinfection process Building a new hospital And make improvements to existing health centres. They insist that these measures are necessary to ensure adequate and safe medical care, especially in emergency situations such as the one that occurred.
Director of Iquitos Support Hospital, Carlos CorralHe explained that the facilities no longer have the capacity for new internal construction and that the hospital is overcrowded due to the number of patients.
For his part, the Director General of the Loreto Regional Government said: Javier Shupingahua Tech, He noted that inspections are being conducted in the affected areas within the Iquitos Emergency Hospital. In addition, he assured that repair work will be carried out as soon as possible, including cleaning gutters and mailboxes, as well as reconfiguring medical environments in poor condition.
“The construction of the new Apoyo Iquitos Hospital will be completed by the middle of next year and we will monitor the progress of this long-awaited project with members of the medical staff and the union to avoid possible misunderstandings,” he said. Shupinghua.
The head of the hospital’s medical staff, Roberto Coblentz, stressed the importance of representatives of the Office of Grievances and the Public Prosecution for Crime Prevention assessing the recorded damages, as these are patients and workers exposed to any tragedy.
Heavy rains in the city of Iquitos caused floods in various areas of the city, as a result of the collapse of mailboxes and pipes. In blocks 15 and 16 of Calvo de Araujo Street, he was confronted by residents aniegos Who entered their homes and caused damage to their devices and property.
In some streets, vehicles were stuck due to water accumulation, causing further chaos in the city. This type of situation is not unusual in the city of Iquitos, where residents are accustomed to facing similar incidents.
The National Meteorological and Hydrological Authority of Peru (Senamhi) has issued an orange alert due to the possibility of heavy rain in various regions of the country in the next 24 hours. Areas subject to this warning include Ancash, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cusco, Huancavelica, Huanuco, Ica, Junín, La Libertad, Lima, LoretoMoquegua, Pasco, San Martin, Tacna and Ucayali.
Senami urged residents of these areas to stay aware of weather conditions and take necessary precautions against possible landslides, landslides, river flooding and weather phenomena that may accompany heavy rainfall.
