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New Hospitals
Leonel inaugurates two hospitals in "City of Health at Charles de Gaulle"
President Leonel Fernandez led the inauguration of the new hospitals the maternal Reynaldo Almanzar and pediatric Hugo Mendoza of the City's Health Charles de Gaulle, in the province of Santo Domingo, which added together to the health system over 400 beds.Hospitals were built by the Company Carimex, with an investment of over $ 110 million.During the ceremony, Minister of Public Health, Bautista Rojas Gomez said that the Children's Hospital was built in an area of 12 thousand square meters and consists of 200 beds, emergency specialist children's burns unit, area of onco-hematology and transplantations of bone marrow.While the Maternity Hospital will have a capacity of 217 beds, neonatal nurseries, delivery and nebulizers, and other services.He said the hospitals are ready for operation for the benefit of hundreds of thousands of adults and children with limited economic resources across the country, especially in the province of Santo Domingo."This is a democratic revolution in the Dominican Republic with the new health model that is developed with the firm backing of the President of the Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernandez Reyna," he said.The Minister of Public Health said the new buildings will be equipped with quality furnishings, late-generation equipment, and will have a nursing staff, technical and support staff with appropriate expertise, with the aim of optimizing services.
Leonel inaugura dos hospitales en
President Leonel Fernandez led the inauguration of the new hospitals the maternal Reynaldo Almanzar and pediatric Hugo Mendoza of the City's Health Charles de Gaulle, in the province of Santo Domingo, which added together to the health system over 400 beds.Hospitals were built by the Company Carimex, with an investment of over $ 110 million.During the ceremony, Minister of Public Health, Bautista Rojas Gomez said that the Children's Hospital was built in an area of 12 thousand square meters and consists of 200 beds, emergency specialist children's burns unit, area of onco-hematology and transplantations of bone marrow.While the Maternity Hospital will have a capacity of 217 beds, neonatal nurseries, delivery and nebulizers, and other services.He said the hospitals are ready for operation for the benefit of hundreds of thousands of adults and children with limited economic resources across the country, especially in the province of Santo Domingo."This is a democratic revolution in the Dominican Republic with the new health model that is developed with the firm backing of the President of the Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernandez Reyna," he said.The Minister of Public Health said the new buildings will be equipped with quality furnishings, late-generation equipment, and will have a nursing staff, technical and support staff with appropriate expertise, with the aim of optimizing services.
Leonel inaugura dos hospitales en
Pichardo, fantastic news! Please give us all an update on the proposed/promised hospital in La Union, just outside Sosua. I beleive the land has been purchased but building work so far has been non-existant since the election.
Many thanks.
J&T
Many thanks.
J&T
There are more than 25 new large hospitals with 200 beds and up each on the pipeline..
Each region will get a Ciudad de la Salud health centre, which will cover all the regular needs atop the specialties for each field, including transplants.
A new program to open as many as 40 blood banks is also on the table! Starting soon, a new donor tracking system will be implemented which will allow those willing to become donors when they died, to be pre-tested for compatibility and other medical needs to make the program as effective as possible.
Wonderful news Pichardo! I'm sure the people in La Union and surrounding areas will be overjoyed at this news, many have commented about the building work in La Union seemed to have been 'put on hold'. Your words of reassurance mean a great deal, presuming your post also includes the proposed site at La Union.
There are two for the area:
One in the carretera as you want:
The other right in Sosua (Private/public like the HOMS):
Let's hope the one in Higuey gets upgraded as well, the whole province has only one public hospital which is in AWFUL shape, looks like a run-down hospital in rural Russia during the 1950's.
Both are located at Ciudad de la Salud at Charles de Gaulle, with a third one also within the same city of health slated to come into service soon!
All public health facilities are being upgraded, with emphasis on the ones in the worst shape and more patients flow.
Atop that, each region will get new hospital facilities built to deal with maternity, children and specialties. The Ministry of Health has a plan to cut the mortality rate for newborns, mothers and pregnancy complications by half of what they are now in the next few years.
What you see above will be the standard for all public health facilities of the DR and also for the new semi public/private facilities slated to be built soon.
Santiago will get a Ciudad de la Salud centre next.
The same is taking place with public schools! Tens of thousands of classrooms are being upgraded with new facilities also slated to be built.
The thing is that the media only focuses on the rather large and most expensive projects, to make politics of it.
This year alone over 12 large new health facilities have been inaugurated all around the country, with some of the biggest and most expensive still slated to be operational later this year.
People don't even know that the new Oncologico of the HOMS in Santiago is a semi private/public project itself.
We just had our first community college inaugurated shortly ago in the DR! That's a mile stone for our country that needs to prepare adults to immediate short technical/hands-on careers, which are high on demand by employers and yet little catered by the majority of colleges in the country.
The same for large public water infrastructure and major investments into water treatment facilities all around the country! The thing again is that media only focuses on what it wants, atop the large needs there exists in the country for these works. No matter how fast you build them, there's always going to be some areas without the services claiming for them. This is the result of sprawl and to some limited extend, the Haitian factor in our territory.
