The Dominican Medical Association executive board has declared that it is in permanent session, warning that its members would not accept the penalties imposed on the doctors at the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital where 11 children, mostly babies, died the weekend before last.
The doctors said that the public hospital was in mourning and that they had not been negligent. CMD president Pedro Sing said that the word “negligence” should be taken out of the report issued by a government-appointed commission. The doctors also demanded the reinstatement of hospital director, Rosa Nieves Paulino.
The doctors, who were all wearing black ribbons, were confronted by police and military personnel who surrounded the hospital and stopped journalists from entering.
Yesterday, Monday 13 October 2014, the new hospital director, Jose Manuel Ferrara, who was appointed by President Danilo Medina on Friday, did not arrive for work.
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