public hospitals

The Dario Contreras trauma hospital in Santo Domingo East has temporarily closed its emergency services during the reconstruction process that is due to finish in February 2015. Other services at the hospital have been closed for the renovations. Hospital director Roberto Lafontaine said that most patients would be sent to the Ney Arias Lora public …

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The latest Chamber of Accounts audits on the administration of the country’s leading hospitals reveal not only an “administrative disaster” but also a series of anomalies with criminal consequences that range from the incoherent handling of RD$1.3 billion to the theft of another RD $246.9 million. The audits were carried out at the Vinicio Calventi, …

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Public Health Minister Freddy Hidalgo says that the Medina administration is investing RD$3.9 billion on improving 74 public hospitals nationwide. At the end of the renovation programs, the hospitals will be ready to charge patients who are affiliated to health plans. This will improve the public hospitals’ finances. At present, public hospitals do not charge …

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The government is embarking on an ambitious construction program with a budget exceeding RD$8 million in the first phase, to rebuild and modernize the country’s main public hospitals including Dr. Dario Contreras, Luis Eduardo Aybar, Marcelino Velez and Jose Maria Cabral and Baez. The program will also include the hospital in Hato Mayor, which will …

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