Some doctors reacted with alarm on the number of deaths

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Eleven children die in Robert Reid Hospital over the weekend



SANTO DOMINGO. Eleven children with different pathologies died over the weekend at the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital, where the central oxygen system suffered a breakdown and the 2 elevators were out of service, which delayed the installation of oxygen tanks.

Nonetheless, the director of the hospital, Rosa Nieves Paulino, said that at no time was there a lack of oxygen for the children, because the doctors on duty used manual respirators.

She assured reporters that the health situation of the children was serious and that the referrals and hospitalizations had intensified over the last three days.

The children had been entered into the intensive care and pediatric areas and seven of them were diagnosed with severe infections and other complications. Another child had a heart condition.

Two of the babies were reported dead last Friday; four died on Saturday and five on Sunday.

In the group there were three newborns, five babies of less than a year and the others were older than a year. The situation attracted the attention of doctors at the hospital, who said that their highest number of deaths that they had seen was seven, and in moments of crisis.

"Eleven, oh my God and what happened!", Was the reaction of some doctors when they became aware of what they define as a very high mortality rate.

The patients came from San Cristobal, Samana, Peravia, sun Pedro de Macoris, Azua, Elias Piña and Greater Santo Domingo.

Yesterday afternoon the Minister of Public Health, Freddy Hidalgo Nuñez, visited the hospital to verify this situation regarding this mortality in the hospital.



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Carelessness by the medical personnel of the Robert Reid Children's Hospital was not the cause of the death of the 11 children last weekend at that health center.

This affirmation was made yesterday by the president of the Dominican Medical College (CMD), Doctor Pedro Sing, who said that the deaths are the result of the "overwhelming" number of patients that are referred to the hospital from private clinics and hospitals around the country.

During a meeting with the Permanent Commission on Health of the Chamber of Deputies, he emphasized that from January until now, the range of deaths of children at the Robert Reid Hospital on Saturdays and Sundays varies between seven and 12.

"The problem is that for more than 20 years they have not inserted the correct budget for all of the programs in the health system. The Robert Reid Cabral would not be so overflowing with patients if we could have primary attention that worked; then they don't go to the second level," he explained.

After calling the deaths of the children "tragic and sad", the union leader called on the President of the Republic, Danilo Medina, to pay attention to the health sector, because the system - he said - is in "intensive care and I hope that it does not lack for oxygen."












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