Elemento
Hospital staff charging $21,000 for an ICU Hospital Bed
Título (Dublin Core)
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
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”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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