The government is embarking on an ambitious construction program with a budget exceeding RD$8 million in the first phase, to rebuild and modernize the country’s main public hospitals including Dr. Dario Contreras, Luis Eduardo Aybar, Marcelino Velez and Jose Maria Cabral and Baez.
The program will also include the hospital in Hato Mayor, which will be finished with the addition of operating theaters, the emergency room and consulting rooms.
The program, which will be implemented by the Office of Supervising State Works (OISOE), includes the construction of new specialist hospitals to combine with those already in existence. It is due for completion by the end of the first quarter of 2015.
Speaking at a breakfast meeting hosted by Listin Diario yesterday, Monday 23 June 2014, OISOE director Miguel Pimentel Kareh said that to ensure the work is carried out correctly they will be working in coordination with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance. He added that the Dario Contreras Trauma hospital would be transformed into a first-class center and as the existing building could not be remodeled they would start from scratch and hoped to finish by January 2015.
He went on to say that the Jose Maria Cabral and Baez Hospital in Santiago would undergo extensive renovations to create a practically new earthquake-resistant interior, with a budget of RD$2.2 billion.
The Luis Eduardo Aybar hospital is also being rebuilt to include a children’s hospital that Pimentel Kareh said would rival any health center in the United States.
He said that OISOE would also build 50 of a proposed 100 First Aid Centers with emergency rooms, cardiology, birthing centers, dentist clinics and X rays and would help relieve the pressure on emergency rooms in the main hospitals.
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