The president-elect of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD), Wilson Roa, is requesting the government resume talks on issues that affect the medical system. Roa is the vice president of the organization. He is scheduled to assume the post in December 2017. He is a gynecologist and a professor of medicine at the state university, UASD.
He said tops on his agenda are efforts to place more medical graduates at public hospitals. He estimated at 10,000 the number of unemployed graduates. He said he will also lobby for an increase in the pensions and instatement of their health plans of the public hospital doctors. He also said he will lobby for rehabilitating public hospitals and providing of supplies so that these can offer better service to patients.
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Diario Libre
13 November 2017
