Archbishop Loayza National Hospital

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Archbishop Loayza Hospital
Catholic
History
Former name(s)Hospital de Santa Ana
Construction startedMay 25, 1915
OpenedDecember 11, 1924
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Archbishop Loayza National Hospital (

Alfonso Ugarte Avenue
.

History

Background

The most distant predecessor of the current Loayza Hospital is the Hospital Santa Ana de los Naturales or Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana, the oldest hospital in Lima.

America, Jerónimo de Loayza.[4] At that time it was located in the small square of the same name, adjacent to the parish church of Santa Ana, in the city of Lima, capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru (currently along Jirón Antonio Miró Quesada, in the Cercado de Lima).[5]

Like the hospitals of

Cathedral of Lima.[3][5] The brotherhoods of mercy and charity were in charge of its administration, founded in 1559 following a plague epidemic that devastated the country.[5] In 1732 the hospital came to be administered by the Bethlemites.[4]

Once the

Republic of Peru was established, the Santa Ana hospital became a military hospital, by decree of Simón Bolívar (1824), who confirmed a decree in the same sense given by José de San Martín. During the government of Andrés de Santa Cruz it ceased to have that function (1836).[5]

In 1841, under the second government of

Lima Maternity House had operated since 1830, whose patients were transferred to the Santa Ana hospital.[5]

The hospital housed the Lima Maternity Hospital from 1841 to 1857, and from 1881 to 1925.

gynecological teaching. This room, known as the Las Mercedes Room, was the first modern operating room in Peru.[7] In this, modern surgical techniques were applied, with emphasis on sterilization methods and surgical asepsis.[7] On August 17, 1898, Carvallo taught the first gynecology class taught in Peru at the Santa Ana hospital.[7]

Already considered a historical relic, the Santa Ana Hospital operated until 1925, when it was closed, being replaced by a more modern hospital built on

Alfonso Ugarte Avenue.[8] On part of the extensive land occupied by the old Santa Ana Hospital, the Lima Maternity Building, currently the National Maternal Perinatal Institute, was later built.[5]

Current building

The Santa Ana Hospital was run by the

historic centre of Lima.[8] The Supreme Resolution that approved its construction was given on January 27, 1905, under the first government of José Pardo y Barreda.[6] For this purpose, an executive committee of social and hospital assistance was established, chaired by the doctor and philanthropist Augusto Pérez Araníbar, the true promoter of the work.[9] In 1912, the French architect Claude Sahut was commissioned to design the new building, and the project won the gold medal at the International Hygiene Exhibition.[8] For economic reasons, only the perimeter wall and some foundations could be built from this design.[8]

The construction of the hospital began on May 25, 1915, under the first government of Óscar R. Benavides, who laid the first stone. At that time, the site was the limit of the city, on the route of the former Walls of Lima, demolished in 1871.[8] It was inaugurated after a significant delay on December 11, 1924, under the government of Augusto B. Leguía, being baptized with the name of the Arzobispo Loayza Women's Hospital, in honor of its colonial founder.[6] All staff and equipment from the old Santa Ana hospital were transferred to the new headquarters.[6] The administration was left to the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Its first administrative superior was Sister Rosa Larrabure, who carried out important social work; She was also the first director of the National School of Nursing.[5] The first medical director of the hospital was the surgeon Juvenal Denegri.[5]

Like its predecessor, the Arzobispo Loayza Hospital continued to provide preferential care to women with low economic resources, until the mid-1990s, when it began to serve patients of both sexes.[10] On January 31, 1974, it became dependent on the Ministry of Health.[5] Its services cover a wide range of specialties.

See also

References

  1. Gob.pe
    . Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza.
  2. ^ Salaverry, Oswaldo; Cárdenas-Rojas, Daniel (2009). "Establecimientos asistenciales del Sector Salud, Perú 2009" (PDF). Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica. 26 (2): 264–267 – via SciELO.
  3. ^ a b Coello, Antonio (2018). "Algunas notas sobre el antiguo Hospital Refugio de Incurables: hoy Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas". Arkinka. 22 (273): 82–87.
  4. ^ a b c Tardieu, Jean-Pierre (2002). "San Bartolomé y Santa Ana: la salud de los afroperuanos en Lima a fines de la colonia" (PDF). Boletín del Instituto Riva Agüero (29). Lima: 159–208.
  5. ^
    ISBN 84-599-1820-3
    .
  6. ^ a b c d "Acerca de nosotros". Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza. Archived from the original on 2020-10-24.
  7. ^
    ISSN 1609-9419
    .
  8. ^
    Junta de Andalucía
    . pp. 31–33, 309–310.
  9. ISBN 9972-205-75-4
    .
  10. ^ "Hospital Arzobispo Loayza, el nosocomio que atendió a la población indígena afectada por enfermedades traídas por los españoles". Infobaae. 2011-11-08.

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