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President Luis Abinader visited the Luis Eduardo Aybar Health City on 30 September 2025 to inaugurate the last remaining hospital included in the mega health complex. The capital city medical city center was begun in 2012 during the government of former President Danilo Medina with an announced budget of RD$4 billion. President Abinader announced that it has been completed at a cost four times the initial announced cost.

According to the Minister of Housing and Edifications, Carlos Bonilla, the total investment in the Health City amounted to RD$16 billion. The current administration executed RD$3.2 billion of that amount to finalize approximately 30% of the remaining work.

The surgery building, the last to be completed in the mega health city, was named to honor neurosurgeon Jose Joaquin Puello who took on the responsibility to complete the project left half way...

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