The medical class, especially traumatologists and orthopedistsexpressed the need to create a vehicle insurance that can cover the medical expenses of traffic accident patients.
This, because according to the doctors, some interventions represent a cost of between 500,000 to a million pesos, depending on the patient’s trauma.
“This has had to lead to the operation of 8,500 people regardless of anything, so that is an expense for the State even that consumes the nation’s budget,” said one of the specialists from the Doctor Traumatology hospital. Dario Contreras.
That is why they understand that the burden that this represents for the National Budget must be alleviated, a proposal that includes the motoconchistas, who represent the largest number of cases of traffic accidents in the country.
Earlier, the National Health Insurance (SeNaSa) reported that during the last two years it has invested RD$2,000 million in victims of traffic accidents.
At that time, the demand was more than 23 thousand serviceswhich implied care, hospitalization, laboratories and others, which represented an investment in those two years of RD$ 97,225,736.52 for two Christmas festivities, carried out in the period from December 15, 2020 to January 2, 2021 and December 15 from 2021 to January 2, 2022.
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The data was recently provided by Dr. Francisco MinayaHealth services manager of SeNaSa.
The capita in the subsidized regime is RD$6.00 and for the contributory regime, RD$22.31, as has been established.
These are values that must be high, said the doctor Santiago Hazimexecutive director of SeNaSa, an entity that has 7.5 million affiliates.
Traffic accidents continue to occupy the first place in causing deaths, they can produce some type of disability according to their statistics.
“Statistics in recent years indicate a similar behavior in the population of 20 and 49 years. Only between January and November 2022, we have received 62,198 affiliates with some type of traffic accident, 53% being 20-49 years old and within this, 42% are in the 20-29-year-old range. ”, indicate the directors of the state insurance.
The great concern of insurers is that the country has a high accident rate, which tells us that traffic accidents are occurring in a younger population.
