Doctors from the Padre Billini Hospital and representatives from the Union of Neighborhood Groups in the Colonial City, where the hospital is located, protested in front of the hospital to urge the authorities to reopen the facility. They said it has been closed for over a month since the Office of Supervising Engineers of State Works (OISOE) declared that the facility was at risk of collapse.
However the doctors and neighbors doubt the official version as there has been no technical report submitted despite the request for this having been made on several times and no land studies have been carried out.
The protesters assured that no personnel from OISOE had been there for over 20 days, contrary to what the director of OISOE had said and he had promised to hand over the results of the studies this week.
There has been speculation in the press that errors during a OISOE renovation some seven years ago could have caused structural problems to the hospital.
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El Caribe
Diario Libre
22 August 2018
