Commission will listen to proposal for gradual start to primary care
They will meet next Tuesday; The CNSS will deal with the issue on Thursday
Diario Libre
SD. The Special Commission that was created in order to deal with the implementation of the Centers for Primary Care (CAP in Spanish) will listen next week to a proposal presented in a meeting that was held yesterday.
The proposal, presented by a technical sub-commission made up of members from the Superintendent of Health and Labor Risks (Sisalril) and the Ministry of Public Health, would undertake the gradual entry of the CAP, beginning in regions such as Del Valle and the Cibao, according to what the president of the Dominican Medical College (CMD), Amarilis Herrera, told the Diario Libre.
Herrera said that she could provide greater details of the document because the other members of the commission have to see it first. She said that there will be a new meeting next Tuesday, and then they will take the proposal to the National Social Security Council (CNSS) next Thursday.
Nonetheless, she said that the CMD maintains its position that it will not be possible to begin the CAP starting next 1 May.
In the meantime, the president of the National Association of Private Clinics (Andeclip), Rafael Mena, said in a telephone conversation that they were hoping that the proposal was "rational and conforms to the law."
The president of the CMD told Diario Libre that she would meet with Andeclip before Tuesday's meeting.
During the yesterday morning, the presidents of the CMD and Andeclip warned that if in the meeting with the CNSS authorities they did not reach an agreement to postpone the start-up of the CAP, starting today they would begin to take action which would include the suspension of service to the affiliates of the contributive regime (those who pay payroll deductions for their health insurance) in the different clinics in the country.
Herrera called on family and general practice doctors not to be confused by the business sector, because these allegedly do not think of their welfare, but only the welfare of their businesses.
The president of the Dominican Urology Society, Dr. Erick Grullon, suggested a consensus agreement between the different parties in order to guarantee the fee election by the patients of their preferred doctors.
The proposal, presented by a technical sub-commission made up of members from the Superintendent of Health and Labor Risks (Sisalril) and the Ministry of Public Health, would undertake the gradual entry of the CAP, beginning in regions such as Del Valle and the Cibao, according to what the president of the Dominican Medical College (CMD), Amarilis Herrera, told the Diario Libre.
Herrera said that she could provide greater details of the document because the other members of the commission have to see it first. She said that there will be a new meeting next Tuesday, and then they will take the proposal to the National Social Security Council (CNSS) next Thursday.
Nonetheless, she said that the CMD maintains its position that it will not be possible to begin the CAP starting next 1 May.
In the meantime, the president of the National Association of Private Clinics (Andeclip), Rafael Mena, said in a telephone conversation that they were hoping that the proposal was "rational and conforms to the law."
The president of the CMD told Diario Libre that she would meet with Andeclip before Tuesday's meeting.
During the yesterday morning, the presidents of the CMD and Andeclip warned that if in the meeting with the CNSS authorities they did not reach an agreement to postpone the start-up of the CAP, starting today they would begin to take action which would include the suspension of service to the affiliates of the contributive regime (those who pay payroll deductions for their health insurance) in the different clinics in the country.
Herrera called on family and general practice doctors not to be confused by the business sector, because these allegedly do not think of their welfare, but only the welfare of their businesses.
The president of the Dominican Urology Society, Dr. Erick Grullon, suggested a consensus agreement between the different parties in order to guarantee the fee election by the patients of their preferred doctors.
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