The corpse in the wheel chair

[NewsWhore]

The Ministry of Public Health has acknowledged that incorrect management was involved in the case of a man who died at the Francisco Moscoso Puello Public Hospital. As reported in El Caribe, which carried the photo of the seated corpse of the man wrapped in a sheet on the paper's front page yesterday, 66-year old Luis Duarte died in a chair in the hospital's cholera unit. His relatives complained that he had not received the correct treatment. Deputy Public Health Minister Nelson Rodriguez said that Luis Duarte had been admitted to the Plan B of the cholera unit but was not seen as a seriously ill patient, and thus did not receive a bed. He had a heart attack and died when he asked to go to the bathroom," said the deputy minister. Rodriguez visited El Caribe accompanied by hospital director Roberto Lafontaine. The Ministry of Public Health says that the incidence of cholera in the DR continues to be low at 0.01. So far, 76 people have died of the disease. Yesterday there were 40 patients in the Moscoso Puello cholera unit.

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