The Order of Physicians announced this Friday that it has strengthened its contacts with the Ibero-American Forum of Medical Entities and the competent authorities to expedite the repatriation to Portugal of the seven young Portuguese doctors detained in Peru.
The Order of Physicians expresses, in a statement, “institutional and personal solidarity with the seven doctors recently graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra”, revealing that, “following all the steps taken, letters were sent to sensitize the Peruvian authorities to speed up the return of these doctors to Coimbra, as quickly as possible”.
“Given the strong social upheaval and the intensification of protests in that Latin American country, the Ordem dos Médicos, also through the International Department, continues to develop its intervention in coordination with the authorities in order to provide all the necessary support to overcome these events. in Peru,” he said in the statement.
In this exceptional context, he affirms, “the Ordem dos Médicos is deepening all contacts, both in the institutional relations of the Ibero-American Forum of Medical Entities (which brings together representatives of medical organizations from Latin America, the Caribbean and the Iberian Peninsula), or with the national and European diplomatic authorities”.
According to the statement, the president of the Order of Physicians, Miguel Guimarães, and the president of the Center’s Regional Section, Carlos Cortés, are “doing everything possible” to bring doctors to Portugal, “developing measures to safeguard their integration “. in a humanitarian corridor through Lima, the capital of that country that currently faces severe restrictions on movement.
Carlos Cortés, quoted in the statement, affirms that, “at a time when the country entered a state of emergency with the consequent closure of airports and others with restricted access, the Order of Physicians reinforced its contacts with the competent authorities to expedite the repatriation “.
The Embassy of Portugal in Lima has “carried out negotiations with the Peruvian authorities” in addition to being in contact with the Portuguese and their families, in order to be able to get the Portuguese out of the country, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EMN).
The closure of Peruvian airports, as well as the interruption of road and rail traffic, is preventing the return to Portugal, according to versions of parents who ensure that young people are safe.
On Wednesday, the government of the new head of state of Peru, Dina Boluarte, declared a state of emergency throughout the country, for a period of 30 days, “to control acts of vandalism and violence committed in protest demonstrations” against the dismissal of former president Pedro Castillo.
The former president was detained last Wednesday by bodyguards when he was going to the Mexican embassy to request political asylum. He is accused of “rebellion” and on Thursday the Supreme Court ordered, at the request of the attorney general, that he remain in preventive detention for seven days.
Source: TSF
