{"id":190080,"date":"2022-11-24T05:53:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T09:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=190080"},"modified":"2022-11-24T07:48:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:48:25","slug":"minister-of-public-health-dr-spends-rd10-billion-on-health-care-for-haitians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/11\/24\/minister-of-public-health-dr-spends-rd10-billion-on-health-care-for-haitians\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Public Health: DR spends RD$10 billion on health care for Haitians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Daniel-Rivera-Diario-Libre-e1669290492377.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190115\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Health Minister Daniel Rivera said on 23 November 2022 that the government expects it will spend RD$10 billion this year to care for Haitian patients at public hospitals. The expenditure is 14% of the resources available for public hospital services in the country. Rivera said that despite the large amount, the government has never denied care to needy Haitians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data was provided by Dr. Mario Lama, director of the National Health Service that groups public hospitals. &#8220;By our planning, it is calculated, if there are no variations, that it will be 10 billion this year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the funds are allocated to the birthing of Haitians and neonatal care, around RD$6 billion. Yet, Dr. Lama said billions are spent to care for Haitian nationals suffering from HIV, cancer, injured in fights, traffic accidents, among other circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained the 14% that Health Minister Rivera points out refers to the sum of the Public Health budget, which amounts to RD$123 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/salud\/2022\/11\/24\/gasto-por-atencion-a-haitianos-asciende-a-rd10-mil-millones\/2150042\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 November 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health Minister Daniel Rivera said on 23 November 2022 that the government expects it will spend RD$10 billion this year to care for Haitian patients at public hospitals. The expenditure is 14% of the resources available for public hospital services in the country. Rivera said that despite the large amount, the government has never &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/11\/24\/minister-of-public-health-dr-spends-rd10-billion-on-health-care-for-haitians\/\" 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":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190080"}],"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=190080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190117,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190080\/revisions\/190117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}