92% Affiliated with Senasa sees positive impact on health

The 92.4% of the members to the national health (Senasa) insurance in subsidized regime considers that belong to that medical insurance has a positive and very positive impact on the family basket, according to the results of research carried out by the poll Gallup Dominican.

Results were disclosed yesterday by Altagracia Guzman Marcelino, Director of Senasa, who emphasized that the 95.9% of service providers accept the Senasa insurance without any problem.

According to the survey, the 93.4% of respondents claimed to have not had any problems to manage their membership and their dependents, being satisfied and very satisfied with the process.

Revealed that Senasa now has 2.5 million members in subsidized and contributory schemes, as well as pensioners of the State, totaling approximately 10,000.

Cited one aspect that needs to be improved is the dispensation of medicinal products, by u000aWhat appealed to the Social security system to seek mechanisms to enable affiliates to replace one drug with another that is part of the basket of coverage.

Here, said the study showed that 29% of affiliates only Senasa received a portion of the drugs that were indicated. He recalled that 60 per cent of holders affiliated with Senasa are women.

On the activity of presentation to representatives of the media of social communication of the results of quantitative research, entitled satisfaction of the affiliate to the subsidized regime with services to them ensures Senasa, were present in the health sector and authorities of the Dominican system of Social Security, including the Minister of public health, Bautista Rojas Gomez, general manager and Treasurer of the Social SecurityRafael Pérez Modesto and Henri Sadhalá, respectively; the owner of the address information and defence of the u000aAffiliates (DIDA), Nélsida Marmolejos, and President of Gallup Dominican, Rafael Acevedo, among others. The subsidized regime Senasa has two million members.

Both in the field of information, 94% of the members of the subsidized regime showed consistent and very happy with the information they receive from Senasa, while to the 91.6% declared to feel satisfied and very satisfied, because the treatment that gives the State ARS staff is good and very good.

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The poverty was the reason of his membership
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about the process of affiliation, respondents revealed that the only reason that was taken into account to affiliate with them was their status as poor.

The study was conducted on the basis of a sample of 1,200 affiliates, who are of age, representing nine regions of health in which Dominican Republic is divided. The overall error margin is more or less 2.83% and 95% confidence level, explained the u000aPresident of Gallup Dominican.

The national health (Senasa) insurance arises with the enactment of law 87-01, which creates the Dominican Social security system. This Act provides for Senasa is autonomous and decentralized public institution responsible for the administration of health risk from members subsidized, contributory and contributivosubsidiados of the public sector and of the contributory from the private sector who choose.

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