President Leonel Fernandez was busy over the weekend, naming PRSC activist Humberto Salazar as his medical advisor, via Decree 905-04, and also appointing 11 under-ministers, 23 provincial governors, 35 assistant district attorneys for the National District (Santo Domingo) and two assistant legal councilors. The decree designated Julio Anibal Fernandez Javier, Rolando Perez Uribe, Griseldy Rodriguez, Pura Burgos and Eric Hazim as under-ministers of finance to replace an equal number of officials removed from their posts. Decree 903-04 named Felix Medina, Jose Gabriel Fernandez, Rafael Schiffino, Maria Villa and Guillermo Serra as new under-minister of public health.
Among the many provincial governors designated in Decree 900-04 were Jose Izquierdo in Santiago, Orlando Espinosa in San Cristobal, Mariano Morla in San Pedro, Luz Selene Plata in Duarte province (San Francisco de Macoris), Mario Jose Hidalgo in LaVega, Francis Vargas in Puerto Plata, Pedro Rojas Morillo in La Altagracia (Higuey), and Jose Luis Cosme in Maria Trinidad Sanchez (Nagua).
The President also included Major General Jose Anibal Sanz Jiminian, naming him the head of the National Council on Drugs. Andres Vanderhorst was named the head of the Airport Authority, and Emerson Diaz became the administrator of the Housing and Assistance Institute (INAVI). Decree 906-04 also named Jaime Vargas Jr as an ambassador to the Chancellery in charge of Asian Affairs, and Jose Zapata was named under-minister of labor. Also included in the decree were the designations for the Corporation for State Enterprises (CORDE) to be headed by Manuel Tapia Linares; the Commission for the Reform of Public Enterprises to be headed by Felix Alcantara, and at PROMESE, the entity that provides low-cost medicines to public hospitals and individuals in need, Elena Fernandez and Julio Baez were named director and sub-director. Hector Otero Cruz was names as under-minister for public health. Decree 911-04 named Gerardo Apolinar Aquino, Aristedes Victoria and Arismendi Bautista as under-Minister of the interior & police, and Jose Maria Sosa as administrative under-minister for the Presidency.