page_title: Arequipa
section_title: Healthcare
hierarchical_section_title: Arequipa / Infrastructure / Healthcare
caption_attribution_description: English: General Hospital Honorio Delgado Hespinoza
context_page_description: Arequipa is a city located in the province and the eponymous department of Peru. It is the seat of the Constitutional Court of Peru and often dubbed the "legal capital of Peru." It is the second most populated city in Peru, after Lima, with an urban population of 1,008,290 inhabitants according to the 2017 national census.
  Its metropolitan area integrates twenty-one districts, including the foundational central area, which it is the seat of the city government. The city has a Nominal GDP of 9,445 million and a nominal GDP per capita of US$10,277, which represents a GDP per capita PPP of US$18,610 in the period 2015, being the second city with the highest economic activity in Peru.
  Arequipa is also an important industrial and commercial center of Peru, and is considered as the second industrial city of the country. Within its industrial activity the manufactured products and the textile production of wool of camelids. The town maintains close commercial links with Chile, Bolivia, and Brazil and with the cities connected by the South trainway, as well as with the port of Matarani.
context_section_description: As the administrative and economic capital of the Arequipa Region, the city has the largest number of both public and private healthcare centers which total 680 establishments. Public health institutions that are present in the city are:
  Social Security Hospitals
  Edmundo Escomel (level I hospital)
  Policlínico Metropolitano
  Yanahuara (level III hospital)
  Carlos Seguin National Hospital (level IV hospital)
  Complejo de Prestaciones Sociales
  Ministry of Health (MINSA)
  Honorio Delgado Regional Hospital
  Goyeneche Hospital
  National Institute of Neoplasic Diseases (INEN):
  Regional Institute of Neoplasic Diseases
caption: Honorio Delgado Regional Hospital
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