Hoy newspaper reports on the continuing crisis of the public hospital system, pointing out that the government-run Doctor Antonio Musa Hospital in San Pedro de Macoris is practically closed. The newspaper says that indigent patients who require the facility’s services are dying because of a lack of medicines and supplies. For the same reasons, elective surgeries are no longer being offered. Blackouts of 20 hours have worsened the finances of the hospital, forcing it to run its own generator. The newspaper says that even emergency cases are now being turned away.