Former president of the Consejo Nacional de Educación Superior (CONES), Alejandrina Germán criticized that legal consultant of the Executive Power, Guido Gómez Mazzara should have recommended to President Hipólito Mejía the authorization for the reopening of the Universidad Eugenio Maria de Hostos medical school without investigating the reasons for its shut down. Germán was president of Cones when it was closed for irregularities that were giving local medical school graduates a bad name. She said the worst of the case is that the rector of that university is the present Minister of Public Health, Jose Rodriguez Soldevilla. She said that the school was closed to rescue the credibility of medical schools in the DR. She denied it was not shut down for personal or political reasons. She said that on the board of the CONES were representatives of all the parties that concurred with the results of the investigation carried out by experts that led to the closing. "I want a name put to this, if it is moral, ethical, or it is traffic of influence, if it is acting with the transparency that supposedly the government of the PRD wants to show," she said. She told El Siglo newspaper that the reopening of the newspaper would be a mortal blow to the bringing of decency to superior education in the country, and that it would affect the reputation of graduates from other schools of medicine.
