El Caribe leads with the tragic news that ten premature babies have died in San Pedro de Macoris’ Musa Hospital. The cause of the deaths is being given as hypothermia, as most of the hospital’s incubators are out of service. The single unit that works is affected by the serious electricity shortages and lack of oxygen. Doctors are protesting the cash crisis at the public hospital, saying it is raising infant mortality levels in the city. While Health Minister Jose Rodriguez Soldevila was expected to visit the struggling hospital yesterday, he did not appear, according to Thelma Nunez of the San Pedro branch of the CMD (Dominican medical association). The paper’s editorial comment calls on the government to provide the hospital with the resources it so badly needs, saying, “Not much can be done with empty hands.” Hoy newspaper reports from Bonao’s Pedro E. Marchena Hospital, where doctors must work without medical supplies of any sort. The emergency department is empty and patients are being turned away with prescriptions that include the type of bandages they must buy, according to the report. The hospital has been under construction for eight years and is not yet completed.