San Cristóbal.- President Luis Abinader made an extensive tour of the San Cristóbal province this Saturday, where the Government is executing a investment only in health of approximately RD218 million pesos.
For the headquarters of National Health Service (SNS) more than RD$141 million pesos have been invested in remodeling hospitals in the province and another RD$41.8 million pesos in Primary Care Centers.
In addition, from the regional resources, RD$20 million have been invested in readapting Primary Care Centers and RD$15 million pesos have been invested in equipment for centers in the province.
The hospitals intervened are Juan Pablo Pina, Rafael J. Marañón, Tomasina Valdez de Palenque, Yaguate hospital, Villa Altagracia, Cambita Garabitos, Cambita Pueblecito, Barsequillo, María Paniagua, Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia and the Los Cacaos municipal hospital.
The equipment that has been delivered to hospitals is ambulances with biosafety cabinet equipment and laboratory refrigerator, optical colposcope and sonograph, perianal X-ray equipment, electrocardiograph, sphygmomanometer, defibrillator, glucometers, nebulizer, urinals and fans.
During his tour of this province, the president inaugurated works for more than RD$43 million, delivered 300 cards from the Supérate program and authorized the delivery of direct funds, through the Administrative Ministry of the Presidency, to the Juan Pablo Pina provincial hospital for the purchase of a magnetic resonance equipment highly demanded by the patients of the hospital center.
During a meeting with more than 400 representatives of the health sector in this province, President Luis Abinader announced the construction of a new third-level hospital with a trauma unit in the municipality of Yaguate.
Similarly, the government official reported on the bidding for the first trauma unit for the South region based in the Taiwan hospital, in the province of Azua with an approximate cost of RD$700 million pesos.
Works in Quita Sueño and Piedra Blanca for more than RD$43 million
Earlier, President Abinader inaugurated the Quita Sueño de Haina municipal palace, the Juan Quiñones García park, in the community of Piedra Blanca, Haina, and 7 kilometers of sidewalks and curbs on the main street and the Los Químicos 1 sector with an investment of 43 million pesos.
The president assured that the Government is saving to take works where the people need them.
“And that is why many people say where they get those works from. Whoever wants to see works that fall behind us and we invite all those who want to inaugurate and give the first peck we will show where each fund comes from and mainly how they have been contracted, with the transparency that each work has been contracted for the good of all the Dominican people,” said Abinader.
The ruler responded to several needs that were raised in the act and authorized the construction of a baseball park to be executed with government funds, through the District Board. He also secured solutions for the construction of a multipurpose, paved and Quita Sueño 1 school that informed this bidding process.
In the act, an acknowledgment was given to the president and Abinader, who declared him an Adoptive Son of the Quita Sueño community.
The works that will benefit more than 29,000 inhabitants were carried out with funds provided by the Government, through the Superintendency of Banks, which directs
