Editorial

Abstract

The beginning of the XII Peruvian Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics comes at a time of possible transition to other mechanisms of health care to the Peruvian population. Even without knowing the ideas and scope that this modification may have with respect to our specialty it will be based on the rates of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality, virtually unchanged over the past decades. Also it has to consider the strong current recession, which prevents much of the population to seek medical attention, let alone private medical care.