Primary Attention will go into effect this year

SANTO DOMINGO. The people who direct Dominican Social Security committed a mistake when they put a date on the general opening of Primary Attention. This was the statement by the manager of the National Council for Social Security, Rafael Perez Modesto, who, taking care not to put a date, said that this year they will put into effect formally this service of primary attention.

"We committed an error by setting a date. To say: the first of May (of 2012) Primary Care starts, in the middle of an election process, in the middle of a situation where all of the clinics were against it, in the middle of a situation in which the people did not understand what this was," the official pointed out.

He said that with an analysis that the Corporation of Research, Study and Development of Social Security (CIEDESS), "Primary Attention will be a reality in the country."

At the present time, the public sector has some 1,600 centers of primary attention installed all over the country, and it is planning to build 50 more, but Perez Modesto complained that these centers were operating with recent medical school graduates.

The manager recalled that this component of Social Security has had a strong opposition to going into effect due to the private interests, it is for this that he feels that if Primary Attention had been imposed in an obligatory manner, "today the system would be very strong, solid and advanced."