Santiago.– Hundreds of people marched this Wednesday through the streets of this city against the Health Risk and Pension Fund Administrators.
Under the slogan “no more AFP, no more ARS«, members of the Dominican Medical College (cmd) and its 56 specialized medical societies, Bar Association, Dominican Association of Professors (ADP), Federation of Professors of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Dominican College of Bioanalysts (CODOBIO), marched from the surroundings of the regional university hospital José María Cabral y Báez to the area of the Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration.
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Osvaldo Brito, one of the spokesmen for the protest, deplored the fact that an insured worker pays his insurance religiously every month, but that when it comes to going to the doctor with a health problem, “the ordeal comes that insurance does not cover a large part of the costs”.
The president of the CMD, Senen Caba, warned that this plan of struggle will bring with it regional, national, private and public service strikes separately, but then they will continue in a combined manner, until the ARS decide to present solutions to their demands.
“We reject RESOLUTION 553-02 of the CNSS, we reject the permanent actions of the CNSS to continue delivering resources from the workers of the town to the ARS”, declared the participants in the march.
