Physicians working in the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital limited their work yesterday to emergencies and critical cases only. An estimated 300 children who visited the center were sent home. The hospital is the country’s leading children’s medical center and parents come from all around the country. The physicians, with the support of the Dominican Medical Association, are protesting the fact that the Ministry of Public Health owes them two months wages. President says power problems over by year’s end President Hipolito Mejia promised that by year’s end electricity problems will be over. He said a 180 megawatt plant in San Pedro de Macoris will begin operating soon and that Puerto Plata’s problems will also be resolved [he was probably referring to the imminent arrival of a 180 megawatt power barge].
