NewsWhore
06-18-2007, 06:00 PM
Since 1995 the Dominican government has purchased medical equipment for its hospitals to the tune of RD$25 billion, but about RD$15 billion's worth of this equipment is useless. The government now seeks to refurbish perhaps RD$5 billion of this equipment, according to Hoy newspaper reporter Altagracia Ortiz. Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez confirmed the information and said that he had ordered an inventory of the situation at one hospital, Rodolfo de la Cruz Lora, where purchases of medical equipment had been warehoused over the years. Rojas Gomez said that he did not have any idea about when the hospital, which has been under construction for 13 years, would be completed. He did say that his staff at the Public Health Ministry was training a group of young men and women to repair and refurbish the equipment. In fact, the National Institute for Professional Technicians (INFOTEP) has created, at his behest, a study program to train these technicians in repairing medical equipment.
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