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First heart transplant carried out in the Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo



The General Hospital Plaza de la Salud announced today that they had carried out the first heart transplant in the Dominican Republic.


The process was carried out on young Estephany Moreno, a 22 years old, whom has a history of postpartum dilated Cardiomyopathy with a two years of evolution and suffered from a debilitated heart.


The procedure was performed yesterday by a team of 25 doctors, all Dominicans, including 16 specialists.


The information was provided by the Chairman of the Board of the Plaza de la Salud, Dr. Julio Amado Castanos Guzman, who emphasized that this is a milestone in the history of medicine in the Dominican Republic.


He further stated that with this procedure starts the heart transplant program in this hospital, which has performed 75 transplants from donors of different organs.



The medical team that accompanied Dr. Castanos Guzman said the patient is evolving satisfactorily and that the heart from a deceased donor, had a compatibility matching of one hundred percent with the beneficiary, who has two children and lives in Sabana Perdida.


Moreno had been interned for two weeks in the center without health insurance, so costs will be borne by the half publicly funded hospital. The patient had no unusual complications.
 

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Hospital General de la Plaza de la Salud (HGPS) is a non-profitentity with self-management in the selection and recruitment of staff and in the formulation and use of its budget. It is located on Avenida Ortega y Gasset Ensanche La Fe, Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic.


The HGPS is technically and administratively managed by a board set up by Decree No. 131, April 18, 1996 and ratified by Congress through Law No.78-99, dated 24 July 1999. The Board is composed of distinguished doctors, businessmen, and individuals dedicated to serving the Dominican community as well as ex officio members: the Secretary of State for Public Health and Social Welfare, the Director of the Dominican Social Security Institute, the Chairman of National Council of Businessmen and the Secretary of Labor.



Under the supervision of the Board, the HGPS has an organizational structure headed by the Executive Directorate, responsible for coordinating the planning and management to achieve its goals. Dependent on this Directorate are the Financial Management and Administration Directorate, Medical Directorate and the Directorate of Hospital Support. These in turn have different departments headed by managers and service units under the supervision of their heads.



HGPS medical staff is composed of specialists, sub-specialists and general or internal practitioners, grouped into the following departments: Internal medicine and specialties, General Surgery and specialties, OB-GYN, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Pediatrics and specialties, Family MedicineEducation and Research, Orthopedics and Traumatology. Other services offered are: Diagnostic Imaging, Pathology, Geriatrics, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Dentistry, Laboratory and Blood Bank, Cardiology, Onco Hematology, Ophthalmology, Breast Pathology, Emergency Medicine, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition and social work.




Each year, the HGPS benefits low-income patients who receive up to a 40 percent discount or are exempt from payment according to their financial condition. The HGPS receives a grant from the Dominican Government that covers the annual cost of exemptions and discounts to patients with limited resources.



The HGPS is a teaching facility and has three medical residency programs in the areas of Family and Community Medicine, Medical Emergency and Disasters and Rehabilitation Medicine, supported by the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE). At present, the HGPS has become a major center for training and education for the health sciences faculties of major universities in the country: UNIBE, INTEC, UNPHU, UCE, UASD, and the Catholic University Santo Domingo (UCSD), for both its undergraduate and graduate programs.



The HGPS is recognized as a center of excellence in Dominican medicine, setting quality standards for the entire country.
 

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[h=2]HGPS Highlights[/h]
• It has helped more than 140,000 low-income patients with discounts and waivers of its health treatment plans, helping to improve their quality of life and their physical and emotional well-being.


• Blood Bank with a high level of reliability and credibility, as well as the creation of the section of Cryopreservation of stem cells at the Blood Bank, which supports the HGPS's bone marrow transplant services (only one in the country).


• It is a teaching hospital facility with a board of educational programs in the following specialties: Family and Community Medicine, Medical Emergency and Disasters and Rehabilitation Medicine.


• Conducts a yearly Scientific Symposium to present the institution's research and medical advances.


• CENTOX, the first Poison control center in the Dominican Republic.


• Followed the successful pregnancy, delivery and birth of the first sextuplets in the Dominican Republic with only 26 and a half weeks of gestation. The children are now 4 years of age and healthy (2009).


• Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) as a national reference of care.


• Pacemaker Clinic


• Hemodialysis Unit


• Center for Integrated medicine


• Thorax Pain Unit


• Organ and tissue transplantation program., which has a Transplant Counsel and an Organ Captivity Coordination Unit. The program achieved the first kidney transplant from a deceased donor in the country, liver transplants from deceased donors and corneal transplantation.


• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Hospital, with Urodynamics and Isokinetic Diagnostics units.


• Volunteerism unit to work with the hospital community with a high degree of solidarity and commitment.


• First Primary Care Center of the Dominican Republic.


• The country's first outpatient surgery program.


• The permanence of the only functioning hospital bioethics committee in the country, meeting regularly since 1997.


• Implementation of the first free hip and knee replacement program in the country called Operation Walk, a medical mission for patients with limited resources. It was led by a team of local and international specialists from Brigham and Women's Hospital and since 2008, has benefited over 80 Domincan patients and their families.


• Units of Care and Solidarity (UNASOL), offering medical assistance to thousands of people affected by tragedies of force majeure.


• Diabetic foot Clinic to prevent and treat all foot diseases in any patient.


• Dengue Clinic, as a national reference for all those who present symptoms.
 

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The country?s 1st heart transplant patient doing well



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Santo Domingo.- The 22 year-old woman subjected to a heart transplant Wednesday at the Cedimat General Hospital remains stable guarded condition.According a hospital statement issued Sunday, Stefani Moreno Vargas, mother of two and native of the impoverished barrio Sabana Perdida, is doing well and ingesting liquid food.Cedimat director Jose A. Casta?os Guzman said the patient?s doing well and yesterday asked to be bathed and her hair washed, while the center?s spokespersons Dashira Martinez said the evaluations of her various organs found they remain within normal ranges.Moreno became the first patient to ever receive a heart transplant in Dominican Republic.