David Alejandro Tejada de Rivero (February 27, 1929 – November 3, 2018) was a Peruvian physician, surgeon,

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advocate and government official. Tejada served as a Deputy Director General of the

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from 1974 until 1985. He then served as Minister of Health of Peru from 1985 until 1987 and again from May 1989 to October 1989 during the administration of

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. He is the only Peruvian doctor to be honored and recognized as a "hero of

in the

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(PAHO). Tejada was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1929 to David Tejada Mercado and María de Rivero. He graduated as a surgeon from the Faculty of Medicine of the

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. In 1957, Tejada received a master's in public health from the

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in the

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. Tejada died in Lima on November 3, 2018, at the age of 89. His survivors included his grandson, former Congressman Sergio Tejada.

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