NewsWhore
08-04-2009, 05:50 PM
Public Health authorities did not have to reinforce the out-patient medical consultations in the hospitals of the capital when very few patients sought services yesterday. With the exception of the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital and the San Lorenzo de Los Mina Maternity Hospital, the presence of patients was minimal during the continuation of the labor stoppage called by the Dominican Medical College and two nurses groups.
News reports indicate, nevertheless, that with specialists not offering consultations, the patients overflowed the emergency rooms of the hospitals in search of assistance, while others were forced to spend a long time waiting for a consultation with the managers and military doctors that were filling in, and who, due to their conditions of employment were obliged to offer service. A fewer number opted to return home.
Meanwhile, all of today's newspapers reported on how indignation and impotence overcame a mother yesterday to the point she threw rocks at a group of the striking doctors, after she was told of the death of a son who had been taken to the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital with a bullet wound to the chest. The young man was identified as Edgar Fana Gomez, 22.
The woman, identified only as Elba, turned her anger against the group of professionals that were seated, together with the president of the CMD, Waldo Ariel Suero, on one side of the hospital entrance.
Addressing the event, Dr. Suero assured the reporters that when the young man arrived at the hospital he had no vital signs and that his heart had been destroyed by the bullet that hit it directly. It was also reported that a full team of surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses attended the mortally-wounded man.
For Suero, the work stoppage was 100% effective at public hospitals nationwide, while Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez said that 4,282 consultations were offered in 21 of the ministry's high priority hospitals.
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News reports indicate, nevertheless, that with specialists not offering consultations, the patients overflowed the emergency rooms of the hospitals in search of assistance, while others were forced to spend a long time waiting for a consultation with the managers and military doctors that were filling in, and who, due to their conditions of employment were obliged to offer service. A fewer number opted to return home.
Meanwhile, all of today's newspapers reported on how indignation and impotence overcame a mother yesterday to the point she threw rocks at a group of the striking doctors, after she was told of the death of a son who had been taken to the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital with a bullet wound to the chest. The young man was identified as Edgar Fana Gomez, 22.
The woman, identified only as Elba, turned her anger against the group of professionals that were seated, together with the president of the CMD, Waldo Ariel Suero, on one side of the hospital entrance.
Addressing the event, Dr. Suero assured the reporters that when the young man arrived at the hospital he had no vital signs and that his heart had been destroyed by the bullet that hit it directly. It was also reported that a full team of surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses attended the mortally-wounded man.
For Suero, the work stoppage was 100% effective at public hospitals nationwide, while Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez said that 4,282 consultations were offered in 21 of the ministry's high priority hospitals.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)