On Tuesday 6 March 2018, President Danilo Medina opened a new clinic and diagnostics center in the municipality of Neyba, in the southwestestern province of Barahona. This replaces services offered at the San Bartolomé public hospital that has been demolished to be replaced by a new medical center at the same site. President Danilo Medina used the trip to Neyba to also make the symbolic dig to mark the start of construction of the San Bartolomé public hospital.
The Neyba diagnostics clinic will temporarily provide for first level health services for the residents of the municipalities of Galván, Villa Jaragua, Los Ríos, Las Clavellinas, La Teja and El Salado while the new Neyba hospital is built.
The new diagnostics center will be offering emergency services, consulting rooms, and diagnostic imaging. It has areas for gynecology, pediatrics, internal medicine, dentistry, psychology, sonography, laboratory, x-rays, pharmacy and vaccinations with the latest technology and equipment.
Patients requiring hospitalization will be transferred to the public hospital in Galvan that is about five minutes away. At the inauguration, Dr. Chanel Rosa, the National Health Service director, Dr. Luis Perez will coordinate ambulance services to take patients from Neyba and nearby communities who need transferring to the Galvan hospital.
Read more in Spanish:
https://presidencia.gob.do/noticias/en-neiba-danilo-entrega-centro-de-diagnostico-y-deja-iniciada-construccion-de-hospital
7 March 2018
