President Danilo Medina will be chairing the Council of Ministers to present the General Budget for 2016 at 4 pm today, Wednesday, 23 September 2015.
The meeting with ministers, and government directors and administrators will be held at the Presidential Palace.
During the week, representatives of all government departments have been holding meetings at the Palace to discuss the budget, whose total amount is due to be revealed later today.
A special section of the budget will be used to build and restore hospitals, separate from the Ministry of Public Health budget. The Ministry of Education is again expected to receive the largest allocation.
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