Santiago. The Government seeks to acquire and convert Las Colinas General Hospital into a maternity hospital, a health center that was built by the private sector and was never put into operation, despite the fact that it was inaugurated in 2016.
The information was offered by the North Central regional director of the National Health Service, Manuel Lora, who explained that the center could be converted into a self-management hospital, however, he did not report whether it will be purchased or used as a rental.
“I don’t know if it’s going to become a traditional hospital or if it’s going to become a self-management hospital, I don’t have that information, but it could be the possibility of it becoming a self-management hospital,” Lora said during a news conference.
He stressed that the northern region urgently needs a maternity hospital, because the existing one, Mrs. René Klang, Widow Guzmán, is saturated, “and that infrastructure is there, it is a quick solution, where mothers from the 14 provinces of the region of the Cibao”.
It hasn’t worked
The Las Colinas General Hospital was inaugurated in 2016, it was erected on the adjacent lands of Colinas Mall, with the purpose of offering health services to 60% of the population of Santiago, which resides in the northwest area of that city. and to people who live in nearby provinces, given the lack of level three health centers.
It consists of an area of 20,000 square meters of construction, of which 3,500 are for external consultation (offices) and 16,200 square meters for the hospital area. It has seven levels and has a capacity of 109 hospitalization beds, nine operating rooms, plus a laboratory area, cardio-diagnostic area, hemodialysis, ophthalmology, pediatrics, emergency and pediatric emergency, among others.
Says covid cases are minimal in Santiago
Regarding the situation of infections by Covid 19, Manuel Lora highlighted that the occupation in the health centers of Santiago de los Caballeros is minimal and that there are more patients admitted with pneumonia and other respiratory conditions typical of the time, and that the majority of coronavirus-related cases are managed on an outpatient basis.
