{"id":141074,"date":"2020-04-28T12:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=141074"},"modified":"2020-04-28T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T13:44:40","slug":"presidency-adds-another-coronavirus-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/28\/presidency-adds-another-coronavirus-advisory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency adds another coronavirus advisory committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Consejo-Internacional-Covid-19-Listin-Diario-e1588044043367.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141058\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amado Alejandro Baez, executive director for the Presidential Committee on Covid Response, announced the creating of the &#8220;International Council of Advisors of the Emergency and Health Management Committee for the Combat of Covid-19.&#8221; The new entity seeks to promote the exchange of experiences, updates of protocols, information, as well as case studies, scientific and epidemiological monitoring, through meetings with various world-renowned institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This network of academics and volunteers for advice and innovation is made up of representatives from the World Association of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, the Asociaci\u00f3n Salvadore\u00f1a de Emergencias, the NGO Team Rubicon, and for universities, the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Medical College of Georgia, the Augusta University School of Research and Medical Center in Georgia, and Harvard University in the United States and the Universidad de Barcelona in Spain,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B\u00e1ez said that the Technological Institute of the Americas (ITLA) and the Pedro Henr\u00edquez Ure\u00f1a National University (UNPHU) are joining the new advisory initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of the Presidential Committee on Covid Response are Public Health Minister Rafael S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas; Chanel Rosa Chupani, director of the National Health Service (SNS); Brigadier General Juan Manuel M\u00e9ndez Garc\u00eda, director of the Center for Emergency Operations (COE); Jorge Marte B\u00e1ez, medical advisor to the Executive Branch; Dr. Jos\u00e9 R. Yun\u00e9n, a physician certified in internal medicine, infectious disease, critical and neuro-intensive medicine, and Patricia Le\u00f3n, executive director of Laboratorios Referencia, a leading local laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This committee was created by President Danilo Medina to guarantee the effective coordination of the different institutions that watch over public health and to optimize the effectiveness of the measures taken by the Dominican state to confront the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2020\/04\/27\/615024\/conforman-consejo-internacional-de-asesores-para-combatir-covid-19-en-rd\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amado Alejandro Baez, executive director for the Presidential Committee on Covid Response, announced the creating of the &#8220;International Council of Advisors of the Emergency and Health Management Committee for the Combat of Covid-19.&#8221; The new entity seeks to promote the exchange of experiences, updates of protocols, information, as well as case studies, scientific and epidemiological &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/28\/presidency-adds-another-coronavirus-advisory-committee\/\" 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":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141074"}],"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=141074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141087,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141074\/revisions\/141087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}