Dominican Medical College (CMD) condemned on Tuesday that public hospitals in the country’s southern region lack supplies to provide assistance to patients arriving.
“Health officials in our region expose doctors to work in inhumane and unacceptable conditions, such as a lack of security in hospitals, primary care units and clinical centers, leading to frequent attacks, in much the same way that the current summer Despite the wave, there is not enough air conditioning in sensitive areas such as the operating room,” said Dr. José Antonio Santana.
He said that the doctors are facing humiliation and abuse due to the shortcomings and shortcomings of the scheme with which the National Health Service (SNS) is working, mentioning the delay in availability of medicines for various programmes, In which they are mentioned: high blood pressure, diabetes and other chronic diseases contributing to the presence of more complications and disabilities in the general population: it is an odyssey to get some supplies in our field emergencies like nebulizing patients to a simple mask and lack of drugs, for basic cardiac care and diagnostic tools, among others.
Antonio Santana indicated that concerning this “inhumane and criminal situation”, they have been denied the rights they are entitled to by law. “Today, many doctors in our region are faced with all kinds of barriers and delaying tactics in terms of incentives for seniority, for services rendered, and more.”
The CMD alleges that the Ministry of Public Administration, in full collusion with the SNS, invents a performance appraisal to take away, steal and deny the incentives that the doctors have already earned through their work, giving them those payments without subjecting them to work, as a form of slavery in violation of the Dominican constitution.
They also condemn the fact that some regional directors, who are in charge of human resources, area managers and others, who are indulging in the cruelest and cruelest forms of dictatorship, openly threaten some colleagues, calling them criminals. are constantly harassing and harassing them: “They do proper work due to political issues, lack of planning, nepotism issues, irregular transfers in clear violation of the agreements signed between SNS director Mario Lama and the CMD’s of the JDN , “They said.
“Therefore, we ask the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader Corona, through the media, to abide by the oath he took when he came to power, to obey the laws and the constitution and immediately encourage seniority, distance Order the application of And services were provided to all the doctors in our poor and forgotten southern region.”
In addition, he asked Mario Lama, director of the National Health Service (SNS), to “immediately instruct his regional directors to stop the threats and sieges that we are facing with our doctors.”
“CMD South Regional declares itself in a permanent struggle as of today and does not rule out any means of struggle to enforce the dignity of the medical class in our region, demand better working conditions and we For each give until the end of the month for our associates to receive incentives in accordance with the law”.
