Emergency rooms nearly empty

[NewsWhore]

Santo Domingo hospitals, normally the nation's busiest, are nearly empty, and, with the exception of the occasional accident victim, most of the emergencies are of a minor nature. According to El Caribe, all emergencies from Friday to Sunday are associated with alcohol or food poisoning, and wounds sustained during fights or traffic accidents. However, even these causes have seen a significant decline over the last few months. According to the doctors on duty there has been at least a 30-35% decrease in emergency cases. One patient, suffering from an earache, told reporters that if there isn't any money circulating then there isn't any drunkenness. Reporter Petra Savinon visited Padre Billini, Luis E. Aybar and Francisco Moscoso Puello hospitals and found that most of the patients were children with flu and cold symptoms.

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