Журнал. World association for medical law. The COVID-19 pandemic. Volume 39 2

282 Medicine and Law On April 14, 2020, the government published the Ministerial Resolution No. 193-2020-MINSA, a technical document for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment for people affected by Covid-19 in Peru. This document indicated the different medicines that must be applied for the treatment of patients with mild, moderate and severe cases. The treatments involve Chloroquine Phosphate, Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, avoiding the use of non- steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. On April 19, the second rapid test batch arrived, consisting of another 330,000 kits from China, allowing 12,000 tests per day 56 . The Minister of Health said that these tests were prioritized for frontline health care personnel as well as the police and military. On that day, 15,628 confirmed positive cases were reported 57 . The same day, Emergency Decree No. 042-2020 58 was enacted to grant a bonus of S/. 760 soles, equivalent to US $ 214, in favour of households in poverty or extreme poverty in the rural area, amounting to a total of S/. 836,180,640. Continuing with its economic Plan, on April 23, the Government announced an additional Universal Family Bonus of S/. 760 to address the 6.8 million households (75% of the nation) that do not have regular income and are not on the payroll as dependent workers, mobilizing a total of 5.168 million soles 59 . the Ombudsman’s Office asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the “negligible” budgetary expenditure for handling the Covid-19 cases in Lambayeque. Also, the chief of the Ombudsman’s Office of Lambayeque, Julio Hidalgo, indicated that S/.15,808,843 is not being implemented effectively, efficiently and diligently and despite “46 days have passed (April 30), and having the Lambayeque Region a larger care needs in the health services to attend to the Covid-19 cases, the budgetary progress is really very small.” The information can be seen at https://www.laindustriadechiclayo.pe/noticia/1588482063-gobierno-central- ejecutara-el-presupuesto-de-lambayeque-destinado-a-enfrentar-el-covid-19 56 This news can be seen at https://www.tvperu.gob.pe/noticias/nacionales/covid-19-llega-al- pais-segundo-lote-de-300-mil-pruebas-rapidas 57 This news can be seen at https://www.gob.pe/institucion/minsa/noticias/126658- minsa-casos-confirmados-por-coronavirus-covid-19-ascienden-a-15-628-en-el-peru- comunicado-n-70 58 This regulation can be seen at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/normaslegales/ decreto-de-urgencia-que-establece-medidas-extraordinarias-de-decreto-de- urgencia-n-042-2020-1865631-2/ 59 This news can be seen at https://rpp.pe/economia/economia/gobierno-extendera-bono-de- s-760-quienes-seran-los-beneficiados-noticia-1260638