The Minister of Public Health of Haiti is expected in the DR this week. Michaelle Amedee Gedeon will visit to sign a joint work plan to control sicknesses that affect both countries. The plan was agreed upon during bilateral talks held between both governments. Efforts to eradicate sicknesses in the DR are affected by the migration of Haitians to the DR. Thus the DR has pressed for cooperation between both countries. The agreement will strengthen epidemiological services and vigilance along the frontier and joint actions will be taken to improve nutrition in both countries. Minister of Public Health says that the debate regarding the Haitians is beyond his department. He said that Haitians are admitted to public hospitals and receive the same services as Dominicans do. He said that when patients arrive, the medics do not ask their nationality. The influx of Haitians, though, is a burden on the hospitals’ limited resources.
