Medical Services

Here is how this works in practice. On-set medical provision in Peru runs against a specific regulatory backbone — Ley 29783 on occupational safety, MINSA health-authority oversight, SCTR workplace insurance and EsSalud (Seguro Social de Salud) registration that ties directly to the daily crew manifest filed by the production office, plus SUNAFIL labour inspection on any working day. Our medical professionals work to all of it.

Here is the short of it. They are paramedic-trained and ACLS-certified set medics drawn from Clínica Anglo-Americana, Clínica Internacional and Clínica San Pablo in Lima and Clínica Pardo and Hospital Regional in Cusco, with established response routes to the the capital trauma centres and the the city regional referral hospitals.

Here is the breakdown. The 116 SAMU ambulance service, 106 police line and 115 fire service are pre-coordinated for every shoot day, hospital codes mapped, and ASIS DGCA medevac arranged in advance for remote Andean and Amazon units so that helicopter rendezvous and Lima evacuation routing are ready before the first call sheet goes out. Risk assessments are written to Peruvian regulatory language and to global productions insurance standards in parallel. This keeps the production carrier and the local MINSA inspector aligned on every shooting day.

The terrain dictates the cover.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Cusco at 3,400 metres, Sacred Valley days at 2,800-to-4,000 metres, Lake Titicaca at 3,800 metres, the Cordillera Blanca peaks above 4,500 metres, the Colca Canyon rim at 3,200 metres and La Rinconada beyond 5,000 metres all carry HACE and HAPE altitude-illness protocols — supplemental oxygen on standby, Diamox prophylaxis advised in pre-production briefings, acclimatisation days built into the schedule with Lima-first sequencing, coca tea and mate de coca on steady craft service, and crew triage on the daily oximeter reading.

Here is how the picture comes together. Amazon shoots out of Iquitos, Manú, Tambopata and Pacaya-Samiria need yellow fever vaccination, malaria prophylaxis, dengue and leishmaniasis awareness, snakebite antivenom on standby and river-evacuation routing to Iquitos or Puerto Maldonado. Pacific coastal units carry UV-radiation protocols and rip-today's safety on surf-coast shoots. Lima urban shoots stage hospital routing through the the capital district medical network with pre-cleared ambulance lanes. For stunt and special-effects sequences we add boosted cover with extra paramedics. The records closes back to SCTR, EsSalud and the production accountant for the DAFO certification file.