San Cristobal.- President Luis Abinader made this Saturday a tour of the San Cristóbal province where the Government is making an investment in health of approximately RD 218 million.
The headquarters of the National Health Service (SNS) have invested more than RD 141 million in remodeling hospitals in the province and others RD 41.8 million 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 have been invested in equipment for centers in the province.
The hospitals involved are Juan Pablo Pina, Rafael J. Marañón, Tomasina Valdez in Palenquethe Yaguate hospital, Villa Altagracia, Cambita Garabitos, Cambita Pueblecito, Barsequillo, María Paniagua, Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia and the municipality of Los Cacaos.
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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, nebulizers, urinals and fans.
In his tour of this province, the president inaugurated works for more than RD 43 million, delivered 300 cards of the program Supérate 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 an MRI equipment highly demanded by the patients of the hospital center.
While holding 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 tender 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.
