Doctor Onofre Rojas director of the Centro de Investigación y Promoción Social, called a press conference to advise that “the RD$500 million assigned to the Plan de Alimentación y Nutrición (nutritional feeding program) was insufficient to solve the nutritional problems in the country. He said, “The country has very serious nutritional problems as well as a vitamin deficit.
The country has not invested in investigation programs in the area of nutrition and this is very serious. We do not have any experience in this matter and it is imperative that we build a suitable team of people. The first thing is to teach the population how to improve its feeding habits.”