Use of Senasa funds proposed to rescue the Robert Reid Cabral Hospital
They need RD $100 million; Altagracia Guzmán awaits the proposal
Diario Libre
SANTO DOMINGO. In order to get the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital out of the precarious condition in which it is found, the Superintendent of Health and Labor Risks (Sisalril) yesterday proposed an RD $100 million injection of funds from the operational margin achieved last year by the National Health Insurance (Senasa) in the Subsidized Regime.
Fernando Caamaño reported that the operational margins which the public Administrator of Health Risks (ARS) surpass RD $1 billion at this date and that, as the regulating entity he justifies and approves any agreement between the Ministry of Public Health and the state health insurance program.
Regarding this idea, the director of Senasa, Altagracia Guzmán Marcellino, prefers to wait for a formal proposal before speaking on the issue.
"It is not possible to observe a situation so precarious and so painful, such as that which the Robert Reid Cabral Hospital is currently going through, the hospital which attends our neediest children, without reacting in search of immediate solutions, much less having identified a good, legitimate, and legally sustainable source," said Caamaño.
He explained that all operational margins which is achieved in the Subsidized Regime belong to the poorest of the population.
He added that if the suggestion is accepted, the hospital could receive the resources through the account of the ordinary transfers which Senasa carries out.
"The resources to which we refer, in all cases, are resources that are destined to finance our Public Health Network, which in the last six months have resulted from the efficiency of the expenditure on health achieved by Senasa, besides the accounting adjustments carried out on their books," he said.
On another topic, the Superintendent of Health praised the efforts that the authorities of the Ministry of Public Health are carrying out in order to Institute in the public hospitals, the systems of authorization of services, billing and collection destined to the provision of the services that are granted by the private ARS within the Payroll Deduction Regime.
Fernando Caamaño reported that the operational margins which the public Administrator of Health Risks (ARS) surpass RD $1 billion at this date and that, as the regulating entity he justifies and approves any agreement between the Ministry of Public Health and the state health insurance program.
Regarding this idea, the director of Senasa, Altagracia Guzmán Marcellino, prefers to wait for a formal proposal before speaking on the issue.
"It is not possible to observe a situation so precarious and so painful, such as that which the Robert Reid Cabral Hospital is currently going through, the hospital which attends our neediest children, without reacting in search of immediate solutions, much less having identified a good, legitimate, and legally sustainable source," said Caamaño.
He explained that all operational margins which is achieved in the Subsidized Regime belong to the poorest of the population.
He added that if the suggestion is accepted, the hospital could receive the resources through the account of the ordinary transfers which Senasa carries out.
"The resources to which we refer, in all cases, are resources that are destined to finance our Public Health Network, which in the last six months have resulted from the efficiency of the expenditure on health achieved by Senasa, besides the accounting adjustments carried out on their books," he said.
On another topic, the Superintendent of Health praised the efforts that the authorities of the Ministry of Public Health are carrying out in order to Institute in the public hospitals, the systems of authorization of services, billing and collection destined to the provision of the services that are granted by the private ARS within the Payroll Deduction Regime.
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