The president of Dominican Medical College (CMD), Senén Caba, was in favor of the health personnel of a center wanting to learn Creole Haitian to facilitate communication and provide better care to migrants.
“I don’t think it’s anything execrable,” said the trade unionist. “I think that speaks more of the progress of a country and not the setback,” Caba said when consulted by Diario Libre.
“A health personnel prepared to deal with this large number of Haitian nationals who are here, which is an undisputed reality, facilitates the communication process and improves care for these human beings,” he said.
Caba stated that in the management that he presides over in the Dominican Medical College (CMD) advocates for a much more humane health. “Health should not be denied to anyone,” he added.
“Our social, political, and economic reality speaks of the fact that our largest trading partner is the United States, but the country with the greatest presence here is Haiti, and much of the health budget goes to them (in Haitians),” argued Senén Caba.
The Human Resources Department of the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital called the center’s staff to receive language training to provide better assistance to Haitian foreigners.
The course will be taught by National Institute of Professional Technical Training (Infotep) and will begin on July 7 and end on October 13. It will last 13 sessions. Hours will be from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Clemente Terrero, director of the hospital center, reported that he has not formally authorized this training under his management. Terrero, an infectologist, confirmed that the course had been carried out under another administration at the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital.
“We have not formally authorized these courses,” Terrero told reporters last Thursday. “We are issuing a warning because they had not documented us, they had not informed us, nor have we given authorization to do so,” added the doctor.
.According to Second National Immigrant Survey of 2017 in the Dominican Republic live 497,835 Haitian migrantsrepresenting 85% of all foreigners in the country.
“I think that speaks more of the progress of a country and not the backward movement”President of the Dominican Medical College
A large part of health care for Haitian immigrants occurs in the obstetric area. And according to what Dominican authorities have reported, the country no longer has the installed capacity to care for Haitian women in labor due to the “saturation” caused by care for COVID-19 in the public hospital network.
A large part of health care for Haitian immigrants occurs in the obstetric area. And as reported by Dominican authorities, the country no longer has the installed capacity to care for Haitian women in labor due to the “saturation” caused by COVID-19 care in the public hospital network.
At the end of last year, the Dominican Government took several migratory measures aimed at reducing the arrival of Haitians. Between them, limited to emergencies only care in hospitals for undocumented immigrants. Similarly, entry was prohibited the country to pregnant women from the age of six months.
