PLD demands investigation of dengue statistics
Health October 26, 2023 | 5:00 pm
Santo Domingo.- Opposition Dominican Liberation Party denounced that dengue fever has gotten out of the control of the Health authorities and the Government, aggravated by the manipulation of statisti[...]Health issued a measles alert
Health October 26, 2023 | 8:51 am
Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Health issued an epidemiological alert due to increased measles in Canada, Chile, and the United States. Previously, the Pan American Health Organization had issued a [...]Death toll from dengue rises to 13 and 14,089 cases
Health October 26, 2023 | 7:00 am
Santo Domingo—So far, in 2023, the epidemiological surveillance system has recorded 14,087 cases of people infected by dengue and 13 deaths. Pediatric hospitals in the Metropolitan Region are under [...]Health tourism accounts for 3% of visitors to the Dominican Republic
Health October 25, 2023 | 5:44 pm
Santo Domingo.- In 2022 alone, the Dominican Republic received, for health tourism, more than 250 thousand patients, doubling the figures reached in 2018. Meanwhile, more than 3% of tourists visiting [...]Dengue forces the government to add beds to treat patients
Health October 25, 2023 | 4:23 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Public Health authorities acknowledged on Wednesday that there is currently a "pressure" of dengue cases in at least two hospitals in Greater Santo Domingo. He speci[...]1,660 breeding sites of the mosquito that transmits dengue fever have been eliminated
Health October 25, 2023 | 11:00 am
Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Public Health reported that hundreds of volunteers from the different institutions that make up the "Cabinet of Action against Dengue" intervened in various districts o[...]Dengue fever control campaign impacts two million people
Health October 24, 2023 | 5:01 pm
During the social mobilization carried out and organized by the Government over the weekend to eliminate breeding sites of mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever, 1,694,640 interventions were carried o[...]SNS reports 332 hospitalizations due to dengue fever in Greater Santo Domingo and Monte Plata alone
Health October 24, 2023 | 11:30 am
The Minister of Public Health, Daniel Rivera, affirmed this Monday that, with the broad intervention carried out this weekend, in which volunteers from the different State institutions integrated into[...]Abinader defends official figures on dengue cases and deaths
Health October 24, 2023 | 10:03 am
President Luis Abinader defended the statistical figures offered by the Executive Branch and public health authorities regarding the cases of dengue fever registered in the country. Asked by the me[...]Three die in La Vega, Barahona and Santiago were hospitalized with dengue fever
Health October 24, 2023 | 9:00 am
Two people died after several days of dengue fever while being treated at health centers in Santiago and La Vega, while a minor died while being admitted to the regional hospital of Barahona. One o[...]Dengue fever affected ex-policeman dies in Constanza
Health October 24, 2023 | 8:05 am
José Antonio Valdez Araújo (Chelo), a former member of the National Police and militant of the Fuerza del Pueblo (FP) party, died in Constanza, affected by hemorrhagic dengue fever, according to Mrs[...]Pediatric hospitals are overflowing with dengue patients, says Infectious Disease Society
Health October 23, 2023 | 3:03 pm
Santo Domingo.- The president of the Dominican Society of Infectious Diseases, Rosa Abreu, denounced that the cases of dengue fever in the country continue to increase. During the last week, the two l[...]More than 3 thousand with suspected dengue fever registered in one month
Health October 23, 2023 | 2:07 pm
Santo Domingo, RD—More than 3,000 patients with suspected dengue fever have been hospitalized in the 16 health centers that have the highest demand during the current epidemic affecting the country,[...]Government takes to the streets to stop the spread of dengue fever
Health October 23, 2023 | 7:04 am
Santo Domingo—With the participation of authorities, military, health personnel, and volunteers, the government stepped up actions yesterday in Greater Santo Domingo and the country's interior to co[...]Laboratories with high demand for dengue
Health October 21, 2023 | 10:00 am
Santo Domingo, RD After the violent boom of dengue fever in Dominican territory, with more than 12,000 reports since its beginning and 11 human losses so far this year, private laboratories, such a[...]More than 27,000 people will take to the streets in Dominican Republic to fight dengue fever
Health October 21, 2023 | 8:02 am
Santo Domingo, RD--The Government of the Dominican Republic will deploy this Saturday 27,375 people in a massive spraying day to contain the spread of dengue fever amid an outbreak in the country that[...]INCART presents the most innovative technology for the rapid diagnosis of breast cancer
Health October 20, 2023 | 12:30 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Rosa Emilia Sánchez Pérez de Tavares National Cancer Institute (INCART) in the Dominican Republic has partnered with pharmaceutical company Roche to introduce in[...]Hospitals are prohibited from giving information about the rise of dengue in the Dominican Republic
Health October 20, 2023 | 8:57 am
Santo Domingo.- Multiple hospitals in the capital city of the Dominican Republic have reported suspected cases of dengue fever, a disease that has caused 11 deaths in the country this[...]Dominican Government announces measures to combat dengue outbreak
Health October 19, 2023 | 8:11 am
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government has announced a series of measures to combat the dengue outbreak, which has already resulted in eleven confirmed deaths and is overwhelming bo[...]Father of girl who died of dengue fever requests state of emergency from the president
Health October 15, 2023 | 7:57 am
Amid grief for the loss of his 13-year-old daughter, urologist José Ezequiel Pérez Durán called on the authorities to take measures against the outbreak of dengue fever that continues to wreak havo[...]