Health advisor to the Executive Branch, former Minister of Public Health Altagracia Guzmán says that it is urgent the DR put in place migratory controls to avoid that the advent of impoverished illegal Haitians to the DR bring with it an increase in tetanus, tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS. She said that the Haitian women that are coming to give birth in Dominican public hospitals have not been previously received tetanus shots. She said the cases of tetanus that have been reported in the DR in the past three years are of children born to Haitian mothers. The establishment of a bilateral public work plan is high on the agenda of the bilateral DR-Haitian talks. There have been several proposals for the securing of international aid to establish hospitals in Haiti with Dominican public health support.
