NewsWhore
07-16-2008, 04:40 PM
The President and the First Lady cut the ribbon and led the opening ceremony for the new Emergency Room at the famous Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo Domingo. Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez told reporters from Diario Libre that long waiting times for treatment and patients sitting on the floor were a thing of the past.
The new ER can treat 16 patients at a time and has another six beds available for patients under observation. It also has an area for applying casts and for procedures that do not require major surgery. Hospital director Hector Quezada called the new ER "more than an emergency room; it is an integrated trauma center" because it has modern tomography equipment, two units of the latest x-ray equipment, three surgeries, MRI equipment, dialysis equipment, a full clinical laboratory and other services. Each year the hospital sees more than 60,000 patients and performs 8,000 major surgical procedures. Over the past 12 years the hospital, certainly one of the busiest in the Caribbean, has treated over 12 million patients from all over the country. The hospital is located just off of the Las Americas Highway, near the approaches to the Duarte Bridge on the east bank of the Ozama River.
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The new ER can treat 16 patients at a time and has another six beds available for patients under observation. It also has an area for applying casts and for procedures that do not require major surgery. Hospital director Hector Quezada called the new ER "more than an emergency room; it is an integrated trauma center" because it has modern tomography equipment, two units of the latest x-ray equipment, three surgeries, MRI equipment, dialysis equipment, a full clinical laboratory and other services. Each year the hospital sees more than 60,000 patients and performs 8,000 major surgical procedures. Over the past 12 years the hospital, certainly one of the busiest in the Caribbean, has treated over 12 million patients from all over the country. The hospital is located just off of the Las Americas Highway, near the approaches to the Duarte Bridge on the east bank of the Ozama River.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)