On Wednesday, June 25, the Ann
Sullivan Center of Peru (CASP) and the I Octavio Mongrut Hospital (HIOMM) of
the Sabogal Healthcare Network – EsSalud celebrated the signing of an Agreement
of Inter-institutional Cooperation for the implementation of preventative and
promotional healthcare activities for CASP employees.
Dr. Adler Gil Quesada, Director of the
I Octavio Mongrut Hospital, and Dr. Liliana Mayo, Founder and Executive
Director of CASP, were in charge of the agreement. The agreement establishes a
cooperative alliance between both institutions with the purpose of improving
health and making lifestyle changes, through participation of the
EsSalud-insured employees of CASP.
It is also expected that healthcare
professionals trained in prevention and health promotion will perform a comprehensive
evaluation of CASP employees. Additionally, a group of employees will be formed
to be in charge of promoting and maintaining healthcare permanently at CASP,
called Healthy Life Promoters.
The agreement was made possible by the
new Reform Program of Renewed Life that Social Security – EsSalud carry
nationally. The program allows for identifying risk factors of insured workers
who are overweight or obese or have dyslipidemias, high blood pressure and
elevated blood glucose levels, within a health category called Metabolic
Syndrome.
“Through this strategic alliance,” Dr.
Adler Gil Quesada said, “a commitment to attention and comprehensive
intervention has been established for all employees of CASP in an efficient and
effective way. We hope that this program will have an impact on the detection
of health problems for each collaborator of this educational institution and
that it will help avoid developing illnesses and/or control them adequately.
For us, it is a challenge, a challenge to promote new healthy lifestyles in the
educational community, and we are assuming it with responsibility, commitment
and much enthusiasm.”
Said Dr. Liliana Mayo: “Today is a
historic day for us. The signing of the strategic alliance between CASP and the
Octavio Mongrut Hospital fills us with joy.”
I Octavio Mongrut Muñoz Hospital (HIOMM)
The I Octavio Mongrut Muñoz Hospital
(HIOMM) of the Sabogal Healthcare Network is an institution of Social Security
located on Avenida Parque de las Leyendas 255, Maranga, San Miguel, was
inaugurated through Executive Presidential Resolution No. 473-PE-ESSALUD-2007
on July 21, 2000, the mission of which is to pursue the wellbeing of the
insured and their access to healthcare, economic and comprehensive and quality
social benefits. HIOMM currently has a population of 193,131 insured
beneficiaries from the districts of San Miguel, Bellavista, Carmen de la Legua
and La Punta, and it provides preventative
and promotional health services within the location of its jurisdiction through
the programs of Primary Attention and Reform of Renewed Life, in addition to
healthcare and recuperative services through its emergency, hospitalization,
external consulting and rehabilitation services.