Santo Domingo, RD. – With more than 12 buildings, three of them, the Luis Eduardo Aybar Sanitary City This October 20 opens the most complete and robust hospital in the country, the Doctor José Joaquín Puello Surgical General Hospital, which seeks to respond to the medical needs of thousands of patients in the Dominican Republic.
This medical center is spacious, comfortable, friendly in sight, has high -level equipment, safety and technology, a worthy model to position health tourism and, best of all, is open to all audiences.
The modern hospital complex offers a wide range of medical and surgical services, with the exception of oncology and chemotherapy. The 28 specialties that will be treated from the hospital enclosure include hemodialysis units designed in detail for relaxation, with impeccable care that transports to tranquility and serenity with their landscapes of waterfalls, vibrant rocks and crystalline waters.
The hospital houses three emergency areas composed of the clinic, surgical and burned unit. It is an accessible center, but with a security technology that limits the entry to people not authorized to risk areas.
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What services does the health city have?
The city, which has a helipad and attends an average of 5,000 people a day, according to estimates of the deputy director -the neurosurgeon Henry Pérez-, it is trained to address heart, neurological, maternal-infantile problems, general medicine, medical, ophthalmological, traumas, surgical, gastroenterological images, in addition to consultations and other specialties.
This health metropolis has an external consultation building where patients of various specialties are treated and is connected to the Gastroenterology hospital, which offers endoscopy services and other gastrointestinal studies.
Avant -garde burn unit
The complex also houses a modern burning unit, considered the largest and most equipped in the Caribbean and Central America region, according to statements by the president of the health city, the renowned neurosurgeon José Joaquín Puello, after the visit of El Día to the Medical Zone, who in turn highlighted the importance of this for the popular sector of the country.
“This is a hospital for the most helpless, for the poorest, who do not have access to a high-level hospital; it is and will continue to be public,” said the Dominican eminence, referring to rumors that alleged the privatization of the modern clinical-surgical Doctor José Joaquín Puello.
This unit extends for an entire level of the Doctor José Joaquín Puello clinical-surgical hospital and has a spacious emergency and avant-garde stretchers equipped with oxygen.
In addition, he added that the burned unit that currently operates from the Doctor Ney Arias Lora Traumatological Hospital and that it previously worked there, will not be moved, so that the Dominican Republic goes from having a small unit in Santiago and one in Santo Domingo to have three, the latter being a reference for the Caribbean and South America region.
A connected hospital city
Hospitals enjoy bridges or “catwalks” that keep them interconnected internally to facilitate the transfer of patients and medical personnel. Also having accesses and connections in all facilities, so friendly buildings make the most enriching experience.
The basement, the second health city
The basement of the Luis Eduardo Aybar health city is not only a place for storage, but this is the heart of that city; It has two levels in which it includes laboratories, diagnostic areas, processing and sterilization units, solid waste treatment unit with ultraviolet rays, this being the first throughout the region, as well as the largest morgue in the country.
In addition, this area has kitchens, osmosis system for the purification of water used in the different hospital drinks, oxygen tanks, air conditioners and others.
Medical insurance
The entire health city belongs to the public network, so it will be access to those who have subsidized state insurance, as well as for those who have private medical insurance.
However, attention will not be denied to any person who presents an emergency situation and does not have medical insurance.
An inclusive medical center
One of the novelties that includes the most modern health city in the Caribbean region is the incorporation of Braille language in all its signs, so this allows a comfortable and easy displacement for non -seers people who go in search of medical care.
