Following a demand for compensation for damages in the amount of one million soles, Judge Ulises Marino Oscátegui Torres of the 31st Civil Court of Lima ruled that the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) pay the sum of S/ 100,000 plus legal interest, fees and costs of the process in favor of Laura Vera Guzmán.
According to the lawsuit filed by Laura Vera, the UPCH offered the Technology career in Medical Emergencies and Disasters like a branch of Medical technologyand assured him as a work environment, “health care in the clinical field (hospitals, clinics and others), as well as in other fields of health care.”
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Vera completed her studies that began in 2011 and graduated. Nevertheless, cannot practice the profession because the College of Medical Technologists of Peru does not allow him to enroll because the career offered by the UPCH has not been recognized by the College as a branch of Medical Technology.
During the process, Laura Vera showed that the university “offered, promoted, advertised that said career would be a branch of Medical Technology, despite knowing that it might not be registered in the respective Professional College.”
According to the fourth consideration of the Court, the Cayetano Heredia University He stated that he offered the Emergencies and Disasters Technology course as autonomous from the Medical Technology Course, but said statement has no supporting evidence.
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Also, Indecopi verified, among other things, that on the website of the UPCH“in the heading Presentation 8, presents the career of Technology for Emergencies and Disasters as if it were part of Medical Technology”.
Namely, “The university did not comply with the contract for the provision of educational servicesby not having provided accurate information regarding the Technology for Emergencies and Disasters career”, reads the sentence.
