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11-22-2007, 01:30 PM
President Leonel Fernandez has given the Public Health Ministry 28 mobile clinics, 42 vehicles and 30 drinking water units for use in a preventive health program in communities along the Dominican-Haitian border. The health units were purchased for EUR14.2 million (RD$682.5 million) and are made up of 28 mobile clinics, 14 ambulances and 28 pick-up trucks. Of the 28 mobile clinics 14 will be used for preventive health services, seven will be used for gynecological and obstetric services, four will be used for dental services and the remaining three will be used for ophthalmology and throat and ear problems. The drinking water units can hold 3,000 liters, according to technical information provided by Hoy. The vehicles and drinking water unites were purchased by the Border Development Department through a contract signed with the Spanish company SUCOMEX. Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez, who received the units on behalf of the Ministry yesterday, explained that the vehicles would help improve services to smaller communities and help enhance the quality of life in the border area.
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