The Public Health Minister Sabino Baez announced the construction of a Health City at Avenida Charles de Gaulle, in the eastern Santo Domingo province. As reported in an editorial in Hoy newspaper today, the minister announced the construction of the hospital complex without a tender being called. Since the minister has announced construction would begin in 30 days, the editorial writer speculates the builders have already been chosen. Furthermore, the editorial writer speculates that the hospital center will be built by borrowing the US$90 million budgeted cost from foreign commercial banks, further indebting the country, “given that the government apparently considers that what we owe is not enough”. The editorial writer also comments that there has not been information on who the owners of the 100,000 lot where the center would be built are, nor what has been paid to the owners. Public Health Minister Sabino Baez has been in the press for his activism in securing US$25 million government injection to complete construction of the Homs private hospital going up in Santiago. Press reports have indicated that the minister is a shareholder in the hospital. The Homs hospital aspires to become the first Dominican hospital to serve US Medicare affiliates.