A bad physiological serum kills four people in Peru, including a baby

On March 20, at Sanna Clinic in the Lima district of San Borja, two bodies were convulsed. A 46-year-old woman who removed a tumor in one of her breasts and a one-year- and twenty-day-old baby who had a fever and diarrhea were both given physiological serum, a solution that hospitals and clinics commonly apply intravenously to administer medicines, dilute substances, treat dehydration, and clean wounds and burns.

In the focus of the Congress is the Minister of Health, César Vásquez, whom they see as political responsible for the deaths and the patients affected by a batch of defective physiological serum, elaborated by Medifarma, that came into the health system.In the face of this scandal, the bench of the People's Democratic Bloc began collecting signatures in Congress to present a motion of censure against it.The initiative is supported by parliamenta…

Pedro Riega López spoke in RPP about the responsibility of the Ministry of Health and the General Directorate of Medicines, Insumos and Drugs (Digemid) in relation to the case of the defective batch of physiological serum in the Medifarma laboratory.

They guarantee stock of physiological serum for 20 days in La LiberadDefensoría del Pueblo alerts risk of shortage of physiological serumB. Braun Medical Peru issued a statement to authorities and population in general regarding the current situation of the supply of sodium chloride 0.9% (physiological serum) in the country.The company noted that, since problems were reported in the supply due to the closure of a local production plant, it has k…