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Yesterday the Healthcare Commission of the Peruvian Congress approved a bill that would make medicinal marijuana legal in the country.
A presidential adviser who tried to use his influence to plan lucrative contracts has shaken the government of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Carlos Moreno, former healthcare adviser to the president, Full Article »
Peru’s government has submitted a fiscal budget for 2017 which expands spending by 4.7% to drive economic growth and improve government services. Cabinet chief Fernando Zavala presented to Congress last week a budget featuring significant spending increases in government Full Article »
A court in Peru has ruled that the health ministry must distribute the morning-after pill at public healthcare clinics across the country. In reversing a 2009 decision, the court ordered the health ministry Full Article »
A woman who went into a Lima hospital to have kidney stones removed has had her hands and feet amputated after alleged malpractice. Shirley Melendez, a 25-year-old counselor at Peru’s Full Article »
In his first Message to the Nation, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski promised running water, infrastructure, improved education and healthcare and more. Kuczynski was sworn as president on Thursday by congressional Full Article »
A radioactive guidewire used to treat cancer was stolen from Lima’s Edgardo Rebagliati hospital on May 28. On the tip of the six-inch wire is a small metallic capsule containing Full Article »
Doctors in a Lima hospital removed a 35-pound benign tumor which an indigenous woman from Loreto had lived with for eight years. Health minister Anibal Velasquez heard about Irianita Rojas as Full Article »
Peru and 11 other countries including the United States formally signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in New Zealand on Thursday. With 12 member countries whose population of 800 million make Full Article »
Peru negotiated special terms in the Trans-Pacific Partnership to ensure access to medicine and to protect certain national industries. Governments of member countries published the text of the agreement last Full Article »
