The Manual on Viruses

Do you think that the Peruvian government has acted in the best
possible way to deal with the problem?
The measures taken were adequate (forty, bonds for poor families, improvement
of the capacity of hospitals etc.) but they have not been able
to overcome the problems related to the neglect of the education and
health system for decades. Moreover, they have not had a differentiated
response to the different realities of the population in different social strata
and regions of the country.
And compared to other Latin American countries, one could say
that Peru is in a better position?
Currently, the pandemic in the country has gotten out of control and in
many cities, the health system has collapsed. Although the country has had
a good financial settlement, investments are not enough in the face of a
public health and education system that has been very neglected for years.
In addition, the neoliberal economic system with total lack of protection for
the worker as well as the very high level of informality in family economies
has caused the unemployment of many people who in the coming months
will no longer be able to recover, which will also limit economic recovery.
What support does the government promise to give its population,
especially those who do not have a stable monetary income, the
most vulnerable to an economic crisis? Is the government living
up to its promises? (If no) why do you think not?
Until the end of June, a bond of approximately US$ 200 to 5 million families
will be given to complement the previous bonds. The problem is that
the register of vulnerable families is not updated, therefore there are many
vulnerable families that do not benefit. The delivery is very slow and there
have also been cases of fraud by outsiders or corruption by the government
itself, since many vulnerable families do not have a bank account. Finally,
the government has not delivered the labtops to poor families who must
absolve the online education programs.
What are the government’s biggest weaknesses in the face of a
problem as big as this?
The biggest weaknesses of the government are the slowness of the logistic
processes, the lack of technological tools, corruption, insufficient control of
the management processes of the improvements of the health system and
the inability to respond to the increasing demand of hospital and intensive
care beds caused by the rapid spread of the virus in the country and a
differentiated response to the different realities of the non-homogeneous
population socially, economically and culturally. Finally, one weakness is
the inconsistency between economic recovery and the pandemic, which
has not yet reached its peak.
The population has been tolerant and understands the decisions
made by the government?
Because of low levels of education and lack of transparency of information,
some strata of the population do not understand the decisions that the
government has made.
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