In accordance with its mission and vision, Derrama Magisterial (DM) of Peru constantly endeavours to become the mainstay for teachers, offering them a social well-being programme that gives teaching staff access to the institution’s various services and guarantees them a large retirement fund at the end of their working life. Teachers have access to these benefits once they voluntarily join DM.

June 2015: after taking up the post of Director of Foreign Travel at the Social Health Insurance Institute (Seguro Social de Salud – EsSalud), I had the following experience: a patient had come back from a foreign country after spending a month there and I decided to go with him to his first check-up in Peru. The attending doctor looked at me and asked “What do you want me to do with this patient? He has had a type of treatment that we don’t use in this country and I’m not familiar with it.

Their activities are carried out under a primary care management model that involves the provision of outpatient type services which are accessible to a population of insured persons residing in a specific geographical area, with comprehensive care being provided where appropriate.