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Hospital staff charging $21,000 for an ICU Hospital Bed

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Hospital staff charging $21,000 for an ICU Hospital Bed

Description (Dublin Core)

Hospital beds and medical supplies face enormous pressure with the ongoing pandemic. This article indicates that hospital staff were charging over $21,000 for an ICU hospital bed, a scheme that was broken up by the Peruvian police. If one hospital has been caught, how rampant could this practice be? Also, how can the average Peruvian afford such astronomical prices? The fees and the fact that people paid them show the disparity in healthcare access between Peruvians of means and those without.

Date (Dublin Core)

July 22, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Reuters in Lima

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Katy Kole de Peralta

Tipo (Dublin Core)

news article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Publisher (Dublin Core)

The Guardian

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Events
English Government Federal
English Health & Wellness
English Healthcare
English News coverage
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Social Class
English Crime

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Lima
Peru
news
hospital
Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen
Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital
EsSalud
scam
fraud
ICU
corruption
Perú
health equity

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Peru
news
hospital
health equity

Collection (Dublin Core)

Healthcare
Peru

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/22/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/28/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

07/22/2021

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This item was submitted on July 22, 2021 by Katy Kole de Peralta using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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