Technical Secretary of the Presidency says that the government is contemplating submitting a budget for RD$51,000 million to the National Congress. This would be RD$6,000 million more than the budget for 1999. RD$2,500 million will go to pay for increases in the salaries of physicians and nurses at public hospitals, and for an increase in the wages of policemen. Policemen in the DR make about RD$1,600 compared to the RD$5,200 of their more professional AMET traffic cops.
