Overview

• Main guilds announced the suspension of the indefinite strike on Tuesday after meetings with the Executive and EsSalud, a decision ratified in a national assembly.
• EsSalud confirmed the accepted package includes performance-tied incentives beginning in 2026 plus commitments to service quality and financial sustainability, with unions remaining on alert for compliance.
• Care will restart across 144 hospitals following two weeks of suspended outpatient consultations and elective surgeries during nationwide mobilizations involving 11 unions and more than 60,000 workers.
• The stoppage had been declared illegal by EsSalud after a Labor Ministry ruling of improcedencia, and the insurer had warned of pay deductions and possible dismissals for noncompliance.
• Union leaders had cited drug shortages, inoperative diagnostic equipment and costly outsourcing as drivers of the protest, while local reports in Piura counted more than 20,000 missed appointments.