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Peru’s Public Hospitals Mark Christmas Births as EsSalud Registers First Baby and INMP Welcomes Nine

EsSalud kept nationwide maternity units on Yellow Alert to guarantee safe births during the holiday.

Overview

  • Alaia, EsSalud’s first registered Christmas newborn, was delivered at 00:25 at Hospital Luis Negreiros Vega weighing 3.25 kg and is in good health.
  • The delivery was handled by a multidisciplinary team that provided respectful, humanized care, with immediate skin-to-skin contact and support for breastfeeding.
  • EsSalud leadership said maternal and neonatal services remain fully operational under a Yellow Alert to ensure continuous, specialized care during year‑end festivities.
  • The National Maternal and Perinatal Institute reported nine births between midnight and the early hours of December 25, with all babies reported healthy under its humanized birth model.
  • Health Minister Napoleón Quiroz visited the institute in the morning to greet mothers and newborns and underscore the ongoing support provided on the holiday.