The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this Friday end of international emergency by COVID-19. In Peru, the pandemic killed more than 200 thousand Peruvians. According to the organization, they have elapsed 1221 days since the Sars-Cov2 virus was detected in Wuhan, China. In the case of Peruthe first case was detected on March 6, 2020 in a citizen returning from Europe.
“1,221 days ago, the WHO learned of a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown cause in Wuhan, China. On January 30, 2020, following the advice of an Emergency Committee convened under the International Health Regulations, I declared a public health emergency of international concern for the global outbreak of COVID-19 (…) In the intervening 3 years since then, COVID-19 has turned our world upside down,” he declared. Tedros Adhanomdirector of the international entity.
The COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected the Peruvian country. The arrival of the virus put the Peruvian State in check and revealed an unfortunate reality: the healthcare system he was not prepared to face the thousands of patients who arrived daily at hospitals and posts to receive comprehensive care.
During the first years of the pandemic, the media broadcast painful images of the collapse of health facilities. Many times, patients did not make it to medical offices alive and died on the desolate streets due to compulsory social immobilization.
The ICU beds They were the most wanted. On social networks, the media and others, the relatives of patients infected with COVID-19 were trying to find a space in the Intensive Care Unit to save the lives of their loved ones. In turn, they had to long lines to fill oxygen balloons. Heartbreaking images appeared when calls were received in the middle of these rows announcing the death of their relatives.
The deterioration of the health system prevented specialist doctors from saving the lives of all patients who arrived with severe coronavirus pictures. According to information from the Ministry of Health, until Sunday, May 1, a total of 220 thousand 195 deaths by COVID-19.
The highest number of deaths from this virus was recorded during the first two years of the pandemic. Only in the year 2020, the Ministry of Health identified a total of 94 thousand deaths due to COVID-19 infections. During this period of time, those most affected by infections were the elderly and people with comorbidities. After contracting the disease, the lack of a vaccine to counteract the consequences of the virus in the body led them to a serious state of health. Most of these cases ended with the death of the patients.
The unfortunate situation in the country was even made known internationally. After an exhaustive review of decline figures for this cause, the country became the state with the highest per capita mortality rate in the world.
