The National Service of Health (SNS) reactivated this week all the areas of the hospitals Félix María Goico and the Intensive Care Unit of the Cardio Neuro-Ophthalmology and Transplantation Center (Cecanot), which were intended to care for patients with COVID-19.
The director of the SNS, Mario Lama, explained that due to the low demand for COVID-19 care, these hospitals were released to meet the needs of Health of the population and attend other pathologies, according to its portfolio of services.
In addition, he reported that in the next week adaptations will be made in centers in the northern and eastern regions of the country, which also care for COVID-19 patients and will resume their usual services.
“This is not a dismantling of the COVID-19 Network, since if necessary, the areas will be available and while the resources are used to strengthen care for patients with other diseases,” he explained.
He added that in the Félix María Goico the respiratory triage area remains in operation to attend to users who arrive with suspected coronavirus and refer them immediately to one of the hospitals that will continue to be allocated to the COVID-19 Network. They are these: Moscoso Puello, Marcelino Vélez Santana, Materno Infantil Santo Socorro and Infantile Robert Reid Cabral, in Greater Santo Domingo; Provincial Angel Contreras in Monte Plata, the hospitals old people from Boca Chica and Bonao; the Simón Striddels, from Azua and Jaime Sánchez, in Barahona.
The Félix María Goico Hospital adds a Dialysis Unit to its services, which was created to care for kidney patients infected with COVID-19, which has now been completely renovated and equipped with new equipment to function as a conventional Dialysis Unit.
The area will be directed by Dr. Ramón Ernesto Barreiro, it has five machines and a cardiac resuscitation cart, it will offer services in three daily shifts for greater access and comfort to patients who require the service.
As part of the strengthening of the service portfolio of the Félix María Goico Hospital, the director of the SNS gave that center RD$8,648,219.04 in equipment, which included five vital signs monitors, five adult and pediatric ventilators, an orthopedic instrument set and one of major surgery.
Likewise, at the Dr. Francisco Moscoso Puello Teaching Hospital, ten vital signs monitors, two electrocardiographs, six intensive care beds and four adult and pediatric ventilators were delivered, with an investment of RD$8,360,760.00.
The head of the SNS stressed that the idea is to ensure that the centers of the entire Hospital Network have the necessary equipment and resources to provide a timely response to the needs of Health of the population.
