Solidarity with Haiti

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Rafael Abreu, executive vice president of the National Workers Union (CNUS) said that Dominicans would pick up the health costs for an estimated more than a million illegal Haitians who live in the country, because the National Social Security Law establishes that health services cannot be denied. With the new National Health Plan (SFS), the Dominican government will pick up the tab for their health care, as reported in Hoy. Likewise, he said that Dominican taxpayers would be covering the health costs of Haitian women who come to give birth in Dominican public hospitals. He said there have been discussions about the need for a pact with the Haitian government, so that international health organizations create a hospital network in Haiti to relieve the Dominican health system, which suffers the consequences of the deficiencies in Haiti.

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