Tense atmosphere felt in the Robert Reid Cabral Hospital
Emergency cases were active yesterday and over the weekend
Lisania Batista
SANTO DOMINGO. The atmosphere yesterday at the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital was tense, with an increase in security personnel at the doors which gave access to the inside of the facility, the center of a scandal over the death of 11 children a week ago, and which caused the firing of the Minister of Health, Freddy Hidalgo and the hospital director, Rosa Nieves Paulino.
Employees circulated a letter, without a signature, in which they called for the firing of the hospital administrator, Mireya Taveras who they accuse of poor conduct.
Some mothers with hospitalized children in the pediatric hospital expressed fear that their children would die because of the scarcities which the hospital exhibits.
Among them, is Magnolia Toribio de Torres, who has a 12-year-old daughter and who two months ago acquired a blood infection during her hospitalization at the Reid Cabral. She said that her girl has been hospitalized four months as the result of a tumor in her head which is now affects her vision. The minor was transferred from the Doctor Arturo Grullon Children's Hospital, in Santiago, in order to be operated, but this is not been done due to the bacteria which causes her fevers every day.
Toribio de Torres lives in Montecristi and has been living all these months in the hospital since she said she has no family to stay with in Santo Domingo and her relatives cannot travel regularly to the capital.
Emergency room
The emergency room of the hospital was active during the weekend, as well as the ingress of patients in the area, which forced doctors to put two patients in a single bed due to the demand and the lack of space.
This is the case of a woman from Yamasa, who asked that her name be withheld, who has her eight-month-old son hospitalized since last Friday in the emergency unit affected by sickle cell anemia.
The child was referred to the Reid Cabral from the public hospital of Yamasa and as soon as he arrived at the Robert Reid come brow he received a blood transfusion.
As of yesterday there had been two transfusions, but this time the parents had to pay for them. The mother said she was satisfied with the attentions which he received from the medical personnel that helped her.
Employees circulated a letter, without a signature, in which they called for the firing of the hospital administrator, Mireya Taveras who they accuse of poor conduct.
Some mothers with hospitalized children in the pediatric hospital expressed fear that their children would die because of the scarcities which the hospital exhibits.
Among them, is Magnolia Toribio de Torres, who has a 12-year-old daughter and who two months ago acquired a blood infection during her hospitalization at the Reid Cabral. She said that her girl has been hospitalized four months as the result of a tumor in her head which is now affects her vision. The minor was transferred from the Doctor Arturo Grullon Children's Hospital, in Santiago, in order to be operated, but this is not been done due to the bacteria which causes her fevers every day.
Toribio de Torres lives in Montecristi and has been living all these months in the hospital since she said she has no family to stay with in Santo Domingo and her relatives cannot travel regularly to the capital.
Emergency room
The emergency room of the hospital was active during the weekend, as well as the ingress of patients in the area, which forced doctors to put two patients in a single bed due to the demand and the lack of space.
This is the case of a woman from Yamasa, who asked that her name be withheld, who has her eight-month-old son hospitalized since last Friday in the emergency unit affected by sickle cell anemia.
The child was referred to the Reid Cabral from the public hospital of Yamasa and as soon as he arrived at the Robert Reid come brow he received a blood transfusion.
As of yesterday there had been two transfusions, but this time the parents had to pay for them. The mother said she was satisfied with the attentions which he received from the medical personnel that helped her.
Lisania Batista
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