Álvarez income requested permission for surgery

Businessman Luis Alvarez Renta, who is detained in prison in Najayo, expressed their fear of suffering a permanent paralysis if not undergoes short-term surgery in spinal vertebral.

Eric Raful, Alvarez Renta lawyer, indicated that his client complains because supposedly the Directorate of prison authorities have refused to provide facilities so that it can be underwent surgery at a hospital in Santo Domingo.

Explained that on Monday, December 5 attempted to hold a hearing for amparo filed by his client to be allowed him to move from emergency to hospital Luis Eduardo Aybar, where he would undergo surgery by Dr. José Joaquín Puello, but the hearing was suspended once the lawyers of the Central Bank and the General Directorate of prisons recusaran to the competent judge. The operation had been scheduled for next December 10.

As u000aresult of the objection, the judge Eduardo Sánchez Ortiz declared closed the hearing until that is decided the same by the Presidency of the Court of appeal.

According to Raful, financier has three years trying to achieve that you authorize you this operation, which he had already been denied twice while his complaint had been detected and confirmed by the Directorate of prison doctors. He indicated that the authorities have unknown a formal recommendation presented to the Government by the Commission of human rights, that the Dominican Government welcomed and pledged to materialize.

A communication addressed to the Government by the Inter-American Commission of human rights, on 18 October, sets out that "in response to Mr Álvarez income health status and the fact that is deprived of his liberty, the IACHR requested the Dominican State on humanitarian grounds provide the necessary treatment, of" u000a"agreement with which the competent authorities".

"On the basis of this letter of the IACHR, Álvarez income asked the judge for the penalty of San Cristóbal, and the same Directorate General of prisons, form a Board of physicians chosen and paid by the State so that they dictaminaran about their illness and appropriate to act according to that opinion," said. Raful said that the sentence execution judge ordered that it was carried out as requested, but the direction of prisons disregarded the order of the magistrate and did nothing. "After bonding them to comply with the order of the judge, Mr Álvarez income brought the remedy of amparo," said.

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