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Where is the doctor? Probably in the DR at a medical convention

This year more than 40 medical conventions organized by medical associations in the Dominican Republic will be held. And the majority of these are scheduled for Punta Cana resorts, according to the Farma-Salud Calendar 2018.

Among the conventions listed to be held in Punta Cana are:
In April: the Latin American Gynecology and Encrinology Congress at the Hotel Now Onyx.
In May: the 14th National Congress of Internal Medicine, the Dominican Society of Coloproctology Congress in May, the 27th International Neurology and Neurosurgery Congress at the Paradisus Palma Real;

In June-July, the Dominican Society of Anesthesiology Congress at the Meliá Caribe, the Dominican Perinatal Society at the Hard Rock Punta Cana, the 14th Central American and Caribbean Nephrology Congress; the Dominican Ophthalmology Congress at the Paradisus Palma Real, the Dominican Society of Otorhinolaryngology at the Hard Rock Punta Cana, the Interamerican Congress of Radiology at the Hard Rock Punta Cana;

In September: the 25th Congress of the Latin American Association of Liver Illnesses at the International Convention Center Punta Cana; the 23rd Congress of the Iberoamerican Pediatrics Urology Society at the Hard Rock Punta Cana;

In November: the Latin American Oediatrics Neumology Congress at the Onyx resort in Punta Cana;

In December: the 39th International Orthopedics Congress of the Dominican Orthopedics Society at the Hard Rock Punta Cana.

Read more in Spanish:
Resumen de Salud

6 February 2018