(9 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 9 September 2025
1. Various of nurses and workers from Peru’s Social Security system protesting
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vilma Alvarado, National Union of Social Security Nurses Secretary General:
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"We are here, in this struggle, for the unrestricted defense of Social Security. For the central care of the insured (patients), because we have seen for some time now that the institution has many deficiencies, in structure, in medical supplies, and also in human resources."
3. Various of cardboard cutouts of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, with sign reading (Spanish): “Resign NOW!”
4. Nurses holding banner reading (Spanish): "National strike"
5. Police officers guarding the march
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of nurses from Peru’s Social Security system took to the streets of Lima on Tuesday to call for improvements in hospitals and patient care, as well as protesting deficiencies in hospitals and nurses’ low salaries.
The National Union of Social Security Nurses (SINESSS) said that the number of nurses within the Social Security system cannot provide the level of care for insured Peruvians, and that the system is further impacted as a little under half do not pay their healthcare premiums.
SINESSS further announced that thousands have stopped working within the Social Security sector.
The protest seeks the fulfilment of pending commitments, the payment of benefits, the repair of critical equipment, and better working conditions. At the same time, in hospitals such as the Rebagliati Hospital, doctors also joined the strike, which exacerbated the impact on the care of insured persons.
The protesters have threatened a potential indefinite national strike if Social Security authorities do not engage with them for an appropriate solution.
AP Video shot by Cesar Barreto
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