The director of the Maria Cabral and Baez Regional University Hospital, Rodolfo Baez, was dismissed from his post yesterday, Monday 27 April 2015 by Public Health Minister Altagracia Guzman Marcelino.
As reported in Hoy, the apparent reason for the dismissal is that Guzman Marcelino did not like the fact that Baez asked for equipment for the hospital, such as ventilators, directly from President Danilo Medina rather than via her and her Ministry.
The hospital is currently being remodeled at a cost of several hundred millions of pesos.
His provisional replacement will be the Deputy Minister and regional Health director, Austria de la Rosa.
Destituyen al director del Cabral y Báez; asume interinamente Austria de la Rosa