Santiago. – The Vice President of the Republic, Raquel Peña, inaugurated this Sunday the second stage of the renovated Doctor Luis Espaillat Municipal Hospital in the Sabana Iglesia municipality, with an investment in infrastructure and equipment of RD$39,555,531.
In the act of delivery, the vice president stated that since the beginning of the mandate of President Luis Abinader, the health system has undergone great changes with the aim of having all Dominicans included in an accessible, universal and affordable health system. quality.
“We have received a mandate from President Luis Abinader and it is to remain committed to improving hospital infrastructure and the entire health system in general. Our government is not only one of giving the first bites, but of giving the first scissors, because that is the only way to continue complying with the right that the entire population has to have access to decent and quality health services,” said the official.
Meanwhile, the executive director of the National Health Service (SNS), Dr. Mario Lama, said that they are working to comply with the instructions of the head of state, to defend the population’s right to health, “that is why today, after Almost a year after promising this intervention, we are here giving back to the people of Sabana Iglesia the hospital they deserve”, he emphasized.
The head of the SNS also explained that the center was equipped with 15 multi-function mechanical manual beds for hospitalization, two radiant heat cribs, two cardiac defibrillators, a two-gas anesthesia machine with an advanced monitor, a digital X-ray, a 100-liter gas kettle, a three-channel adult-pediatric electrocardiograph with cart, a digital monopolar/bipolar electrosurgical unit with vessel ligation, three arresting carts, a standard incubator, a basic color ultrasound, and a video colposcope, among others. devices, valued at RD$15,263,161.70.
Dr. Lama also reported that in this health center the human resources were reinforced with the appointment of 54 new collaborators, including six bioanalysts, two imaging technicians, eight graduates and seven nursing assistants, an anesthesiologist, two gynecologists, two pediatricians, a surgeon, an orthopedist, three emergency specialists, a sonographer, a psychologist, a diabetologist, two auditors, two security, ten collaborators for the stewardship area, three billers and an assistant for Customer Service.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Public Health, Dr. Daniel Rivera, indicated that he values the management led by Dr. Lama in the SNS to improve the quality of life of Dominicans, he also mentioned the investments that have been made from that institution in recent days in the health sector, such as the inauguration of the Scintigraphy Unit, the first in the public system, also reported that more than five thousand young people are in the process of being examined for medical residences in 17 provinces and that a thousand new places have been established for those young doctors in training.
The event was attended by Mrs. Rosa Sula Corona de Abinader, mother of President Luis Abinader; She who came on behalf of the president, taking into account that Sabana Iglesia is the municipality where the Corona family is from.
Other officials who attended were Rosa Santos, provincial governor; Roberto Ángel Salcedo, general director of Strategic and Special Projects of the Presidency (Propeep) and Manuel Lora Perelló, Regional Director of North Central Health, Andrés Cueto (EDENORTE) and Andrés Burgos (CORAASAN) among others.
Home delivery.
The vice president, Raquel Peña, also led the act of delivering 44 homes to low-income families, built by the Rancheros Unidos Foundation, belonging to this community, Sabana Iglesia.
“I want to tell each one of them that you are the true ambassadors of us, not only in the United States, but in the world, because you have set an example of transparency, hard work, but above all of coming to return part of what that you have won over your people in an honest and dignified way” expressed about the foundation.
The president of the foundation, Augusto Taveras, thanked Luis Abinader in the person of the vice president for having supported the project, classifying him as one of the best presidents in Latin America.
The 44 houses received the paving of their streets by the Ministry of Public Works, under the coordination of the regional director of that institution, Alexis Sosa to give greater value to the work.
