{"id":157279,"date":"2021-05-03T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T11:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=157279"},"modified":"2021-05-03T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T14:56:21","slug":"free-pcr-and-antigen-test-places-in-santiago-pcr-tests-requests-decline-after-removed-from-insurance-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/05\/03\/free-pcr-and-antigen-test-places-in-santiago-pcr-tests-requests-decline-after-removed-from-insurance-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Free PCR and antigen test places in Santiago, PCR tests requests decline after removed from insurance plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PCR-Test-MainStreet-Family-Urgent-Care-e1610111766915.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152003\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health announced several free vaccination centers in Santiago province. These are:<br>Direcci\u00f3n Provincial de Salud Santiago III<br>Direcci\u00f3n Provincial de Salud Santiago II<br>HEMMI<br>CPN Palo Amarillo<br>Casa Club Embrujo III<br>Hospital Jose Mar\u00eda Cabral y B\u00e1ez<br>Hospital de Baitoa<br>Hospital de Tamboril<br>Hospital Juan XXIII<br>Hospital Municipal Licey al Medio<br>Hospital Monte Adentro<br>Gran Teatro del Cibao<br>Hospital Bella Vista<br>Hospital Hato del Yaque<br>Hospital de Janico<br>Hospital de Sajoma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vaccinates are available free from 9am to 3pm or 8 to 2pm. People should call ahead to make certain the tests are being carried out at these locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health has said that tests are free in public hospitals nationwide. People need a prescription and Dominican government ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) has presented a legal recourse and disputes the decision by the government to not continue to reimburse insurance companies for the test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre reports that in April the lowest number of PCR tests were carried out since June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/salud\/por-falta-de-cobertura-pacientes-dejan-de-realizarse-pruebas-covid-19-IH25992138\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/salud\/por-falta-de-cobertura-pacientes-dejan-de-realizarse-pruebas-covid-19-IH25992138\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/salud\/el-pais-registra-en-abril-la-menor-cantidad-de-pcr-procesadas-desde-junio-del-2020-JG25983695\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 May 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Public Health announced several free vaccination centers in Santiago province. These are:Direcci\u00f3n Provincial de Salud Santiago IIIDirecci\u00f3n Provincial de Salud Santiago IIHEMMICPN Palo AmarilloCasa Club Embrujo IIIHospital Jose Mar\u00eda Cabral y B\u00e1ezHospital de BaitoaHospital de TamborilHospital Juan XXIIIHospital Municipal Licey al MedioHospital Monte AdentroGran Teatro del CibaoHospital Bella VistaHospital Hato del YaqueHospital &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/05\/03\/free-pcr-and-antigen-test-places-in-santiago-pcr-tests-requests-decline-after-removed-from-insurance-plans\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157279"}],"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=157279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157332,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157279\/revisions\/157332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}