Overview

• In Arequipa, about 2,000 outpatient consultations are being suspended daily at Hospital Carlos Alberto Seguín Escobedo, and scheduled surgeries remain postponed without new dates.
• EsSalud’s general management announced administrative measures against personnel who refuse to work following the ministry’s ruling that the strike is illegal.
• In Piura, nurses escalated their protest by briefly blocking the Sánchez Cerro bridge on the eleventh day of the national action.
• EsSalud says critical and emergency care is being maintained and is moving to hire additional staff, reprogram missed appointments, and bolster telemedicine as part of its contingency plan.
• Unions argue the stoppage is lawful, demand repeal of Legislative Decree 1666 to safeguard EsSalud’s autonomy and worker benefits, and point to decades-long infrastructure gaps that burden more than 700,000 insured in the south.