The Chamber of Deputies approved the granting of US$20,000 to save Ilianov de Leon Albino, a 14-year old Dominican who is interned at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and needs a bone marrow operation. His family is undertaking a major campaign to come up with the RD$7.2 million (US$450,000) cost of the operation. So far, they have managed to gather more than RD$4.1 million.
