Asked to assess the building of the hospital Cabral y Baez

Every day growing awareness and concern in various sectors of the country, on the high risks we all are exposed to the possibility of the occurrence of strong earthquakes, with the tragic consequences on the loss of human life involved and the material damage generated.

Following the earthquake in 2003, on the North Coast and especially the violent earthquake which became a disaster in neighbouring Haiti, more recent terrestrial movements of medium intensity in the South and East, are factors to higher alert for Dominicans and in particular the scientific community on the subject.

Is in that tenor engineers structuralist Dominican society makes a new call, through its officers, directors, national authorities, so you can an in-depth evaluation on the advisability of remodeling the plant physical hospital José María Cabral y Baez or build another which works in the u000apresent your parking.

Skilled engineers in anti-seismic construction, José Ramón Cruz, Carlos José López, and Joaquín Almánzar, considered that urgent need to define the steps to follow, because with the current building and its structural faults based on its design, "we have the Chronicle of a death announced for catastrophe".

José Ramón Cruz, spokesman for the society of engineers structuralist Dominicans, said that a remodeling deep to adapt the building to anti-seismic norms get very expensive and there is no guarantee that the work fill the necessary tasks so it may be feasible the construction of a building and leave the space of the current to the parking lots.

Studies on the building
the steering of the institution comprising structuralist engineers argues that you can imitate have done what them many teams of major league baseball, that build new stadiums in the parking and u000atake the old for parkings.

Accurate that this hospital design corresponds to a model established in the 1970s and 80 in Mexico and Nations of South America, which proved to be very vulnerable to strong earthquakes, such as the Mexican occurred in 1985. Its columns are short where they generate play-offs.

"In various studies and diagnoses carried out to that building is checked the type of beams that has is not horizontal, before a strong earthquake the roofs falling and rosan floors while the columns remain standing, a stick through a sandwich, which means that there are no cracking, but the collapse of the structures", indicates.

The institution considers that the solution to the serious risk that mean that the main public hospital in the Cibao region is a danger, deserves a political will which has not reacted in the past 25 years, who are doing the u000awarnings, especially from the Mexico earthquake in 1985.

Cross indicates that so far only been work cosmetic to the physics of the Cabral plant and Báez, where between visitors, patients and those who work in the same daily move over eight thousand people, when studies show that its structure does not support an earthquake of something more than seven degrees, while in an area highly prone to earthquakes, this island is bisected and surrounded with numerous faults which can generate terrestrial movements of great magnitude.

"We need to move from words to deeds, as well as Santo Domingo, we here at Santiago and the region need to have a safe hospital and not vulnerable to earthquakes," said entity.

He recalled that the Cabral y Baez assists patients from the region of the Cibao.

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Thousands ASISTEN A Journal A ESTE CENTRO DE SALUD
the hospital José María Cabral y Baez u000aoperates in a spacious building constructed at the end of the 70s, in lateral areas where it operated from several decades ago and that in principle was called San Rafael.

Between physicians, paramedical personnel and employees in this institution, the most important for its size, the equipment and the services offered in this region, working more than 2,600 people in its different departments. According to his public relations, Sergio García, between patients, doctors and visitors, daily come to the facility between eight and ten thousand people, from different points of this region. Constantly coming medical professionals from other countries, especially from United States, to develop workshops of medicine specializing in favour of patients of low income.

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