The director of the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital, Doctor Francisco Torres Lebrón, has admitted that irregularities have been found in the documentation procedures in the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital, but he says there is no evidence of a massive fraudulent documentation operation.
His comments came following a complaint from former judge Juan Miguel Castillo Pantaleón who alerted that data from the deceased in the two hospitals were used to document the mother as a Dominican and subsequently to issue Dominican birth certificates to Haitian children.
Doctor Torres Lebrón issued a press release saying that the controls were applied but explained that when the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital was being remodeled, 42 of the books of births and deaths were taken to the Moscoso Puello Hospital.
Castillo Pantaleón explains that the lack of controls of deaths at public hospitals has made it possible for criminals to take advantage of the situation and steal the identities of the deceased for resale to be used for the declaration of undocumented foreigners. With the identity of a deceased Dominican woman, a baby born to a Haitian woman can be declared as Dominican.
Read more in Spanish:
Listin Diario
El Dia
23 August 2017
