{"id":129266,"date":"2019-07-31T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=129266"},"modified":"2019-08-01T02:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T02:15:55","slug":"julio-amado-castanos-guzman-mafiosi-network-in-public-health-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/31\/julio-amado-castanos-guzman-mafiosi-network-in-public-health-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio Amado Casta\u00f1os Guzm\u00e1n: Mafiosi network in public health system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"663\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Julio-Amado-Casta\u00f1os-Guzman-Z101.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Julio-Amado-Casta\u00f1os-Guzman-Z101.png 663w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Julio-Amado-Casta\u00f1os-Guzman-Z101-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Z101 \/ \u00a0Kelvin de la Cruz <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The president of the board of the Hospital General Plaza de la Salud, Julio Amado Casta\u00f1os Guzm\u00e1n called for the dismantling of what he called the &#8220;mafiosi network&#8221; that exists in the National System of Medical Residences. He urged that the present system be dismantled and given a focus on education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks were made after an article written by Altagracia Ortiz in Hoy newspaper told how public hospital medics forge and plagiarize research papers to be assigned to subspecialties. &#8220;I believe that is part of the systemic deterioration of the health sector in the Dominican Republic,&#8221; Casta\u00f1os Guzm\u00e1n said when participating in the La Receta M\u00e9dica radio talk show. Casta\u00f1os Guzm\u00e1n is rector of the Unibe University. He said that the matter is but the tip of the iceberg of a series of weaknesses and irregularities that have been happening in the public health sector for some time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He criticized that the health system many times only focuses on infrastructure problems, financing, access and health sector coverage, and forgets the human resources end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Health blames the Dominican Medical Guild (CMD) for sponsoring physicians that submit fake papers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/z101digital.com\/castanos-guzman-hay-que-desmontar-cadena-mafiosa-en-sistema-de-residencias-medicas\/\">Z101<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/la-falsificacion-y-plagio-articulos-medicos-es-secreto-a-voces-en-rd\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/insolito-medicos-falsificaron-y-plagiaron-miles-investigaciones-para-lograr-subespecialidades\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 August 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the board of the Hospital General Plaza de la Salud, Julio Amado Casta\u00f1os Guzm\u00e1n called for the dismantling of what he called the &#8220;mafiosi network&#8221; that exists in the National System of Medical Residences. He urged that the present system be dismantled and given a focus on education. The remarks were made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/31\/julio-amado-castanos-guzman-mafiosi-network-in-public-health-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129313,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129266\/revisions\/129313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}