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.

The former congressman and spokesman of the party Somos Perú, Guillermo Aliaga, has expressed his position regarding the interpellation being promoted against the Minister of Health, César Vásquez. According to Aliaga, this action is unnecessary and unjust, since the deaths of innocent people related to the use of physiological serum are attributable to the negligence of the private companies involved in its elaboration. In his statements, he em…

Defective serum. Medifarma. Before the Health Commission, Guillermo Arboleda pointed out that "his quality system is robust and unalterable," despite deaths. He also acknowledged that there was a failure in the protocol of the production process and quality control. He pointed out that there are two separate operators.

Prosecutor of Crime Prevention confirmed the finding in Tacna of physiological serum that caused deaths in the country, which belongs to the defective lot 2123624 of Medifarma. He indicated the case was communicated to his office only on Thursday 3, so an operation has been deployed to verify actions taken by the health sector.

The Prosecutor is conducting investigations at the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Medifarma for the investigation that runs against her by the defective serums that caused the death of four people.

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…