The National Health Service (SNS) reported receiving nine patients from the island of Dominica that was devastated by Category 5 Hurricane Maria. Executive director of the SNS, Dr. Nelson Rodríguez Monegro said that two were admitted to the Darío Contreras, three to the Ney Arias Lora and four to the Vinicio Calventi public hospitals, with serious injuries of different kinds.
They were transported here by plane and landed at the San Isidro Air Force base. According to Rodríguez Monegro, Dr. Alma Morales, of the Pan American Health Organization (OPS) helped coordinate the medical relief effort.
Rodríguez Monegro said that the transfer had taken place via the OPS, the Dominican Armada, the Department of Emergency and Disaster at the Ministry of Public Health, and Dr. Mirna Font Frías, regional director of Metropolitan Health, who coordinated to reserve space at the hospitals.
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26 September 2017
