"[2] An important role in this decision was played by Hipólito Unanue, then Minister of State.

[3] The French obstetrician Benita Paulina Cadeau de Fessel, recently arrived in Peru, was appointed as director of the establishment.

While the premises were being built, a "birth clinic" was established at the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, under the direction of Fessel herself.

[4] In 1992, it became the National Maternal Perinatal Institute, a new name that announced a higher level, by incorporating research and teaching into its functions.

[3] In 2006 it was categorized as a III-2 Health Establishment, the one with the greatest medical-surgical complexity for maternal-perinatal care in the country.