Die 100 burned for electricity per year

It is estimated that each year are registered in the country more than 100 deaths from burns of electricity and an average of 30,000 are burned by year.

That amount of burnt people is a major concern, constituting a public health problem because of the implications that generates.

The Deputy Minister of public health, Nelson Rodriguez Monegro, said yesterday that this institution makes efforts to provide an adequate response to the high number of patients with burns that is registered in the country, recognizing that there is insufficient beds specializing in Burns of adults in a critical state that has Dominican Republic.

added that in reality for the care of adult patients with severe burns the country only has the unity of the City sanitary Luis Eduardo Aybar, who has 10 beds. However, he pointed out that public health is working to increase the supply of care, and cited the case of an area u000aspecialized to that it will be enabled in the hospital's Traumatology Ney Arias Lora.

Recalled that for children the country has a unit in the children's hospital Arturo Grullón, Santiago, and an area specializing in children's Robert Reid Cabral. He recalled that the patient has more than 25 percent of the burned body surface is which requires to be entered in this type of specialized centres.

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in another order, the officer, who chairs the specialized care of the Dominican system of Social Security Commission, reported that public health is working on the revision of the model of network and primary health care which should prevail in the country, which will be applied as the standard public and private. He said that in this month are scheduled complete the revision of the model by consensus.

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