The president of the board of the Hospital General Plaza de la Salud, Julio Amado Castaños Guzmán called for the dismantling of what he called the “mafiosi network” that exists in the National System of Medical Residences. He urged that the present system be dismantled and given a focus on education.
The remarks were made after an article written by Altagracia Ortiz in Hoy newspaper told how public hospital medics forge and plagiarize research papers to be assigned to subspecialties. “I believe that is part of the systemic deterioration of the health sector in the Dominican Republic,” Castaños Guzmán said when participating in the La Receta Médica radio talk show. Castaños Guzmán is rector of the Unibe University. He said that the matter is but the tip of the iceberg of a series of weaknesses and irregularities that have been happening in the public health sector for some time.
He criticized that the health system many times only focuses on infrastructure problems, financing, access and health sector coverage, and forgets the human resources end.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Health blames the Dominican Medical Guild (CMD) for sponsoring physicians that submit fake papers.
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31 August 2019