PETROPERÚ and its constant fight against COVID: supports the transfer of equipment to preserve vaccines

PETROPERÚ, joining the efforts of the government in its vaccination process to the most remote regions of the country, contributed with the air transfer of modern cold chain equipment with solar panels to the health facilities of Yakuntich, in the district of Morona, and those of the districts of San Ramón, San Miguel and Palmiche, in the district of Cahuapanas; both in the Datem del Marañón province, Loreto region.

The equipment includes freezers, vaccine carriers and transport boxes for these biological supplies with state-of-the-art technology, suitable for the conservation of a material as sensitive as vaccines. Thanks to this, the storage capacity not only of vaccines against COVID-19, but also against pneumococcus, influenza and other diseases will be increased.

The Regional Health Directorate (DIRESA) Loreto, through the Datem del Marañón Health Network, delivered and installed these modern equipment in health posts whose greatest difficulty is access to them, so it was necessary to use the airway to transfer.

It should be noted that previously, PETROPERÚ also supported the vaccination brigades with the transport of oxygen balloons to health centers located in the native communities of Loreto. Added to this is the delivery of a modern medicinal oxygen generating plant, which was decisive in the worst moments of the pandemic, allowing timely treatment to the victims of the disease in the most remote corners of the Amazon rainforest.

These actions are carried out within the framework of PETROPERÚ's Social Management Plan, which has a special impact on the care, preservation of health and improvement of the living conditions of the communities neighboring its operations.