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Patients and personnel of Luis Eduardo Aybar hospital are transferred

The patients were sent early in the morning to their houses and other hospitals

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Patients and personnel of Luis Eduardo Aybar hospital are transferred
SANTO DOMINGO. With the locks on the access doors to the emergency room, the waiting room of the outpatient offices, and the majority of the wards empty was the condition yesterday at noon of the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital, which the authorities closed in order to make way for its demolition and the construction of a new project.

From the early hours reporters were able to observe the desolation resulting from a move, the patients who had been hospitalized were taken out, some to their homes and others to other hospitals, according to their needs.

The fact was that they have to deliver the physical plant by next Monday, 15 December, at the latest, in order for demolition to begin.

Jorge Santana, 45, was shaking from a chill resulting from a high fever. He was the only one remaining in bed number 4 of Ward 1H2 which he had shared with 6 other patients. The doctors were waiting for an improvement in order to give him a referral.

In two years, when the new hospital is inaugurated, this model of ward will not exist. President Danilo Medina prefers that the rooms contain just two beds in order to guarantee the privacy of the patients and their families.

Complaints

Patients showed their despondency when they went to their medical appointments, which had been previously established, and they found that the outpatient offices were closed.

They were in a sort of shock for minutes in front of the door which gives access to the consultation offices for outpatient treatments until a security guard came by, and indicated the place where their records would be handed over and referrals made to a hospital which would attend them from now on.

The uncertainty also came over several administrative employees, who alleged that the authorities had not told them where they will be transferred.

The hospital administration prepared a locale at the old doctor's offices of the Ayuntamiento of the National District, located on Barahona Street at the corner of 27 February, for human resources and administration with the intention that the employees go there to learn about their work situation.