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Chilca Health Center Staff Demand Removal of Microrred Chief as Infrastructure Fails

The only 24-hour I-4 facility for 150,000 residents has been declared at risk by Civil Defense, prompting calls for a sanitary emergency.

Overview

  • The medical corps formally asked the Red de Salud Valle del Mantaro to dismiss Dr. Fredy Collachagua Tupacypanqui for deficient management and lack of leadership.
  • After October 19 rains, a roof replacement funded with about S/5,000 from the center began but was left incomplete, and fresh downpours reopened leaks in multiple services.
  • Works to build new emergency and TB areas remain halted because laborers have not been paid, leaving key spaces unusable.
  • Staff report shortages of potable water, flooded rooms, and overcrowded, poorly ventilated and poorly lit areas that they say raise the risk of health-care–associated infections.
  • The deteriorating I-4 center serves southern Huancayo, including Huancán, Huayucachi and Sapallanga, yet financing from the health network and the Junín regional government has not materialized.