Robert Reid Hospital inaugurates unit for the management of patients with cholera
Health January 27, 2023 | 8:31 am
The Robert Reid Cabral Pediatric Hospital opened its Cholera Unit on Thursday in the health center's isolation room to provide special care to children who exhibit symp[...]Villa Liberación treatment plants are sources of contamination
Health January 27, 2023 | 8:19 am
The two wastewater treatment plants started by Hipólito Mejia's (2000-2004) and Leonel Fernández's (2008-2012) governments in the Villa Liberación sector of Santo Do[...]Program of cochlear implants in boys and girls with hearing impairment presented by the First Lady and Vice President
Health January 26, 2023 | 10:02 am
The Cabinet for Children and Adolescents, in collaboration with the Ministries of Public Health (Mispas), the National Health Service (SNS), and the National Health Ins[...]Government of Japan donates CT scanners to centers in the country
Health January 25, 2023 | 12:00 pm
The Japanese government donated three tomographs to the country yesterday, which will go to the Doctor Vinicio Calventi Hospital in Los Alcarrizos, the Regional Univers[...]Authorities close a water processing plant in Santo Domingo Este due to unsanitary conditions
Health January 23, 2023 | 1:00 pm
The health authorities ordered the closure of a water processing and bottling plant for violating General Health Law 42-01 and its Public Health Regulation 258-01. Agua[...]Ministry of Public Health reports six new cases of cholera
Health January 23, 2023 | 8:10 am
The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (Mispas), through the Vice Ministry of Collective Health and its General Directorate of Epidemiology (Digepi), repor[...]Cholera in Haiti: nearly 500 deaths
Health January 22, 2023 | 10:00 am
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Nearly four months after its reappearance in Haiti, the number of cholera victims has risen to 496 dead, the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) reported Saturday. [...]What Public Health will do against malaria in San Juan
Health January 22, 2023 | 9:05 am
The Minister of Health and Social Assistance, Daniel Rivera, visited several places in this province, starting at the San Juan Provincial Directorate Regional VI, where he ordered to reinforce of the [...]Another cholera death suspected in Santo Domingo East
Health January 21, 2023 | 10:48 am
Santo Domingo This Friday, another person died in the Villa Liberación sector, in El Almirante, Santo Domingo East, presumably from cholera, but laboratory tests will be needed to confirm this. T[...]Population of heart failure patients gets younger in the Dominican Republic
Health January 20, 2023 | 3:00 pm
Cedimat, specialists, and the University of Bologna collaborated to improve Dominicans' cardiovascular health, with assistance from the two embassies. In the Dominican [...]The cases of cholera in the Dominican Republic rise to 25; Vaccines coming next week
Health January 19, 2023 | 8:11 am
The Ministry of Public Health announced this week that 85,000 doses of the cholera vaccine will be delivered to the country the following week. These vaccines will be d[...]Cholera can spread
Health January 18, 2023 | 10:00 am
All of the conditions for the spread of cholera exist in the Dominican Republic, because overcrowding, along with other social, economic, and environmental conditions i[...]18-year-old dies of dengue and leptospirosis in Puerto Plata
Health January 17, 2023 | 9:30 am
A young pregnant woman who had been admitted to a private clinic in San Felipe de Puerto Plata last Saturday died as a result of dengue and leptospirosis. Ana Cristina [...]In the face of new cases of cholera, government calls for greater prevention
Health January 17, 2023 | 8:00 am
While confirmed cases of cholera, an acute diarrheal disease caused by contact with the Vibrio cholera bacterium, continue to rise in the country, citizens must follow [...]Puerto Rico in second level of monkeypox
Health January 16, 2023 | 10:00 am
According to the most recent bulletin of the Department of Health's Epidemiological Surveillance System (DS), Puerto Rico is in a second level of monkeypox outbreak, wi[...]Health intervenes in neighborhoods; says cholera under control
Health January 14, 2023 | 12:00 pm
The healthcare system has epidemics and disease outbreaks. It does not, however, address the chronic diseases that affect and kill thousands. Public Health teams are still in the neighborhoods in a[...]Public Health monitors two with suspected cholera
Health January 14, 2023 | 8:00 am
Santo Domingo, DR A low incidence of viruses that weeks ago created pressures on the health system, among them influenza, Covid-19, and dengue, while the authorities put more emphasis on the control [...]Authorities clean, but unsanitary conditions are part of La Zurza
Health January 13, 2023 | 10:01 am
Even though authorities continue to carry out cleaning tasks in La Zurza to contain the spread of cholera in the national territory, unsanitary actions are still part o[...]Deficiencies trigger emotional disorders in the Dominican Republic
Health January 13, 2023 | 8:01 am
The economic and health disturbances faced by the Dominican population, especially due to the loss of jobs and the constant threats of outbreaks and epidemics, have become two important stressors that[...]WHO warns of high global cholera outbreaks and vaccine shortages
Health January 11, 2023 | 3:01 pm
The world is experiencing an unprecedented number of cholera outbreaks in countries affected by natural disasters and other crises, while vaccines to prevent this disea[...]
