Defillo questions the decision of the ARS

SANTO DOMINGO. Doctor Bernardo Defillo called the decision by the ARS to oblige their insured people to put their fingerprints on the invoices when they go to acquire medicines with their insurance card "a humiliating action."

Defillo, who was the first Superintendent of Health and Labor Risks (Sisalril), said that in fact the RD$3,000 that the insured have for the purchase of medicines per year is very little for them to be asking for fingerprints at the moment of acquiring the medicines. He added that the current head of Sisalril should order a stop to this practice instead of opening the possibilities that they are justified.

The well known internist and cardiologist warned that they cannot continue to leave the control of the system in the hands of the ARS.

"It is totally humiliating that an insured person who goes to a pharmacy with his insurance card to buy medicine they set as a condition that he should put his fingerprints in order to hand over the medicine. It is already enough that the insured only has three thousand pesos for the purchase of the medicines ordered by the doctor," the well known doctor reiterated as he was interviewed on D'Agenda.