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The country’s largest maternity hospital, Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia has become the first public hospital authorized by the government to accept private health providers (ARS) insurance coverage. Some 20,000 births per year take place at the hospital located north of Plaza de la Cultura in Santo Domingo. Doctors at the hospital were seeing a …

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The Ministry of Public Health says the government is investing more than RD$2.5 billion in the construction and equipping of 50 diagnostics clinics and will increase the number of primary care units (Unap) to 2,000. Health Minister Freddy Hidalgo said the Unap centers would be equipped and staffed by a doctor and several nurses who …

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According to Dominican Medical Association (CMD) president Dr. Pedro Sing, the chikungunya virus has now affected more than a million people in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Sing said that the Ministry of Public Health should do more to eliminate the breeding grounds of the mosquitoes responsible for transmitting both chikungunya and dengue fever, Aedes Aegypti …

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