Santo Domingo.-Health authorities, headed by Minister Daniel Rivera and the executive director of the National Health Service (SNS), Dr. Mario Lama, held a meeting on Tuesday with medical and administrative staff of the Teaching Hospital Salvador B. Gautierwhere they discussed issues related to the restructuring and equipping of this tertiary health center.
As reported in a Health statement, at said meeting, Dr. Rivera guaranteed that both the Ministry of Health and the SNS are working unanimously to improve the infrastructure and other requirements, not only of that hospital, but of the entire public network. to raise the quality of services.
“We met today with the idea of gathering all the details we need to be able to respond immediately and assertively in resolving all the needs presented by the health center. We just have to make the schedule because the budget is already there”.
Meanwhile, Dr. Lama stated that it is not for lack of money that he has not started the process of conditioning the center, but that it is necessary to carry out a critical route to keep track of all the needs and within these, see the most priority aspects to give way to the situation, in order to achieve a center that responds to the needs of the population.
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He suggested to the medical staff “to continue the work despite the crisis situation, since it is the patients who end up affected.”
Dr. Fulgencio Severino, director of the hospital’s Cardiology Unit, served as spokesman and detailed all the problems facing the center, ranging from the deterioration of the structure to the financial situation that implies a debt of 40 million pesos, to what is added the problem of electricity, more and more difficult to carry out the work.
He explained that Salvador B. Gautier requires reengineering at all levels that contributes to restoring its splendor.
“All the problems that the hospital presents must be resolved as a priority, but what worries us most is the problem of electricity, since every time the power goes out, equipment such as air conditioners are damaged,” he explained.
Severino valued the interest of the authorities to correct the problems and seek consensus to work together and ensure that the hospital can provide quality services.
Meanwhile, the president of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD), Dr. Senén Caba, spoke of the need to continue seeking solutions to the problems that affect the country’s health system.
Dr. Miguel Geraldino, director of the center and other directors of that hospital, as well as representatives of the CMD Sectional, in the National District, participated in the meeting.
Dr. Rivera was accompanied by the deputy ministers: of Quality Assurance, José Antonio Matos, and Miguel Rodríguez Viñas, director of Strengthening and Development, respectively, in addition, the director of Medical Residences, Dr. Ylario Reyes Pérez, the director of the Cabinet Robinson Santos, among others.
