2003News

INDOTEL, hospitals & videoconferences

This coming Saturday, President Hip?lito Mej?a will inaugurate a videoconference network that will serve the major hospitals of the Cibao Valley and its population of over three million. According to Orlando Jorge Mera, the head of the Dominican Telecommunication Institute (INDOTEL), RD$30 million has been spent on this project created in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health. The inauguration ceremony will take place at the Regional University Hospital Jos? Mar?a Cabral y B?ez in Santiago de los Caballeros. The new video, radio and internet network will connect the Cabral y B?ez hospital in Santiago, the Morillo King in La Vega, the San Vicente de Pa?l in San Francisco de Macor?s, the Ricardo Limardo in Puerto Plata and the Luis Bogaert in Mao. These five hospitals are the largest and most active in the 14 provinces that make up the Cibao Valley.