Community members of the municipality of Boca Chica, In the province of Santo Domingo, they marched yesterday Tuesday towards the municipal hospital of that town against the precariousness in the care center, denouncing that it does not respond to the basic health needs of the population.
During the demonstration they pointed out lack of doctors, unhealthiness and lack of equipment, among other problems, which causes late care and poor services for patients who have no other alternatives.
Domingo Castro Suárez and Ramón García Pinales, who served as spokespersons, reported that a teenager who was barely 15 years old went to give birth at the hospital at the end of last month, but due to poor medical practice the baby died. They complained that, not satisfied with the tragedy, the hospital management left the mother in the center in detention for approximately a month because she did not have the resources to pay for the service because she was undocumented.
Traumatized by what happened, they reported, the teenager, who lives in the Los Tanquecitos sector, has to be helped by neighbors and community members to take her to psychological therapy, due to mental health problems due to the traumas she experienced.
They deplored that in addition to the death of the child at birth, the hospital demanded that the mother pay close to one million pesos, which they defined as a violation of a fundamental right and an abuse against a mother, even if she was a foreigner.
“It is unacceptable that in addition to the trauma of seeing her child die, due to the psychological pressure she received to pay, she went crazy and now has to undergo therapy,” they stated.
They remember that the Boca Chica municipal hospital was inaugurated by President Luis Abinader on November 21, 2020, after more than 30 years of struggle by the population.
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They indicated that, to inaugurate the hospital, they closed the local maternity center and with the equipment and technicians opened the new structure that now operates with serious precariousness.
They explained that the transfer of equipment and technical personnel was carried out by the director of the National Health Service (SNS), Mario Lama, with the promise that a Maternal and Child Center would be built in Boca Chica.
“Another story, because almost five years have passed, the maternity hospital is closed and this hospital is operating with the equipment there, while the patients are dying,” they warned.
They stressed that patients are dying, not only because of unhealthiness, but because the director of the center, María Mora, has seven doctors suspended for alleged personal matters.
They stated that in the midst of Storm Melissa the population suffered rawly from the absence of services, because there was barely a doctor in the hospital from Friday to Sunday, so children and adults were treated in the same space.
